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George  Washington  Flowers 
Memorial  Collection 

DUKE  UNIVERSITY  LIBRARY 

ESTABLISHED  BY  THE 
FAMILY  OF 
COLONEL  FLOWERS 


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QUESTENBERG,  OF  COLOGNE. 


"  Every  man  ....  shall  pitch  by  his  own  standard,  with 
the  ensign  of  their  father's  house." 

Numbers,  II.  2. 


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r 


MEMORIALS 


OF  THE 


QUISENBERRY  FAMILY 

IN 

GERMANY,  ENGLAND  AND  AMERICA. 


Compiled  and  Edited 

By  ANDERSON  C.  QUISENBERRY. 


[from  a  drawing  of  the  seal  on  the  will  (1645)  OF  HENRY  QUESTENhURY, 
OF  MAIDSTONE,  IN  COUNTY  KENT,  GENTLEMAN.] 


^And  my  God  ptit  it  into  my  heart  to  gather  together  the  people  .  .  .  that 
they  might  be  reckoned  by  Genealogy." — Nehemiah. 


^'MULLACH  A-BU!" 


WASHINGTON,  D.  C.  : 
GfBsoN  Bros.,  Printers  and  Bookbinders. 
1900. 


Only  150  Copies  of  this  Book  have 
BEEN  Printed  ;  of  which  this  Copy  is 
No.  .5S  


PREFACE. 


"  This  shall  be  zsrittoi  for  the  goicratiotis  to  come." — PsALMS.  cii,  iS. 


In  1897  the  compiler  of  this  little  work  issued  a  volume 
called  Genealogical  Memoranda  of  the  Qiiiseiiberry  Fanii/y 
and  Other  Families,  which  contained  all  that  could  be  found 
in  the  Virginia  records,  and  elsewhere,  concerning  the  earlv 
history  of  the  Ouisenberry  family  in  America,  together  with 
a  good  deal  of  more  modern  data  relating  to  it.  At  that  time, 
however,  nothing  was  known  or  could  be  learned  concerning 
the  European  antecedents  of  the  family,  though  there  was 
one  item  of  information  showing  that  people  of  the  name 
had  lived  in  London,  England,  about  two  hundred  and  thirty 
years  ago. 

In  October,  1898,  through  the  kindness  of  that  able 
genealogist,  ^Ir.  George  W.  ^Montague,  of  Xorthampton, 
Massachusetts,  I  received  a  clue  which  I  have  untiringly  and 
persistently  followed,  at  considerable  expense  ;  and,  although 
there  is  yet  much  to  be  desired,  still  the  success  that  has 
crowned  my  efforts  has  not  been  inconsiderable.  I  have 
secured  copies  of  German  and  English  records  (all  reproduced 
in  this  book)  which  show  conclusiveh'  that  our  name  was 
known  in  England  as  the  name  of  an  Englishman  as  early 
as  1468,  and  in  Germany  certainly  as  early  as  1380,  at  which 
time  it  was,  no  doubt,  already  a  very  ancient  name. 

It  is  much  to  be  regretted  that,  owing  to  hiatuses  in  both 
the  German  and  the  English  records,  a  lineal  descent,  abso- 
lutely undeniable  from  first  to  last,  could  not  be  established. 
But,  taking  the  undeniable  facts  in  conjunction  with  other 


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MEMORIALS  OF  THE  QUISENBERRY  FAMILY 


facts  that  may  be  reasonably  deduced  from  them,  I  have  been 
able  to  piece  together  a  constructive  lineal  descent  that  seems 
about  perfect  in  theory.  A  known  descent  of  honorable 
people  from  1380  to  1900 — five  hundred  and  twenty  years — 
is,  indeed,  a  very  fair  record,  and  it  is  one  that  the  Quisenberry 
family  of  to-day  may  unreservedly  claim. 

I  wish  to  place  on  record  here  the  expression  of  my  sincerest 
thanks  to  those  who,  without  fee,  have  given  me  so  great 
assistance  in  collecting  data  for  this  work.  J.  M.  Cowper, 
Esq.,  of  Canterbury,  England,  who  has  rendered  his  own 
country  and  ours  invaluable  service  in  the  various  books  he 
has  published,  examined  for  me  the  ancient  municipal  records 
of  Canterbury,  covering  centuries,  as  well  as  the  church 
registers  of  that  city,  and  many  others  besides.  What  he  did 
involved  a  great  amount  of  very  exacting  toil  and  care,  but 
he  did  it  all  with  a  gentle  and  untiring  courtesy  for  which  I 
must  be  deeply  grateful  while  life  lasts.  Mr.  H.  Mapleton 
Chapman  very  kindly  examined  for  me  the  wills  still  preserved 
in  Canterbury.  Rev.  A.  P.  Morris,  vicar  of  Leeds,  Kent, 
whose  registers  have  furnished  some  of  the  most  important 
data  in  this  work,  also  went  to  extraordinary  pains  to  show 
me  courtesy,  a  fact  which  must  ever  be  gratefully  remembered. 
It  will  greatly  interest  my  American  readfers  to  know  that 
Mr.  Morris  is  the  grandson  of  Mary  Phillipse,  of  New  York, 
who  married  Major  Roger  Morris  of  the  British  army,  after 
having  rejected  George  Washington — a  fact  which  we  have 
all  read  in  biographies  of  Washington.  Washington  and 
Morris  w^ere  both  aides  on  Braddock's  staff  in  1755. 

I  am  also  indebted  to  the  following-named  ministers  of  the 
Church  of  England,  who  kindly,  and  without  charge,  exam- 
ined their  registers  for  me  ;  namely  :  Rev.  F.  M.  Millard,  of 
Otham  ;  Rev.  P.  F.  Wigan,  of  Thurnham  ;  Rev.  John  Scarth, 
of  Berstead  ;  Rev.  Mr.  Southey,  of  Hollingbourne ;  Rev.  H. 
M.  McDonald,  of  St.  Nicholas,  Rochester  ;  Rev.  Percy  G. 
Benson,  of  Hoo  ;  Rev.  E.  W.  Bartlett,  of  Queenborough  ;  and 
Rev.  P\  R.  Alfree,  of  St.  Nicholas-at-Wade,  Isle  of  Thanet. 
All  these  churches  are  in  Kent,  and  most  of  them  are 


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adjacent  to  Leeds.  Quite  a  number  of  rectors  and  vicars 
charged  the  usual  fees  for  examining  their  registers,  as  they 
had  a  perfect  right  to  do,  and  they,  too,  were  as  courteous  as 
could  be,  and  seemed  very  anxious  to  render  me  as  much 
assistance  as  was  possible.  My  experience  with  ministers  of 
the  Church  of  England  impels  me  to  consider  them  the  most 
kindly  and  courteous  body  of  gentlemen  on  earth. 

My  thanks  are  also  due  to  Cornwallis  P.  AVykeham-Martin, 
of  Leeds  Castle,  Esquire;  to  Prof.  W.  W.  Skeat,  of  Cam- 
bridge University  ;  to  F.  V.  James,  Esq.,  of  the  :\Iaidstone 
Museum  and  Library  ;  to  C.  T.  Hatfield,  of  ?^Iargate,  Esquire  ; 
to  Walter  Rye,  Esq.,  of  London,  and  to  many  others  both  in 
Kent  and  in  London  for  valuable  assistance  most  kindly 
rendered. 

To  ]yliss  Phillis  Castleman  Brown  and  Mr.  Laurence  Castle- 
man  Brown,  of  Leeds,  Kent,  I  am  indebted  for  photographs 
from  which  the  illustrations  in  this  work  are  reproduced.  In 
many  ways  they  have  both  assisted  me  very  materially. 

To  my  good  friend  Dr.  Bernard  Bunnemeyer,  of  Washing- 
ton, D.  C,  my  thanks  are  due  for  translations  of  the  German 
records  and  wills  received  from  Cologne  and  Dusseldorf — a 
work  that  involved  a  considerable  amount  of  application  and 
study,  owing  to  the  archaic  construction  of  those  very  ancient 
documents.  Mr.  Herbert  Putnam,  Librarian  of  the  Con- 
gressional Library,  has  earned  my  gratitude  by  affording  me 
unusual  facilities  for  prosecuting  my  researches  in  the  mag- 
nificent collection  of  books  under  his  charge. 

My  own  work  has  not  been  slight,  as  I  have  written  many 
hundreds  of  letters  and  read  a  great  many  books  in  connec- 
tion with  my  researches.  W^hatever  faults  of  construction, 
or  otherwise,  the  book  may  contain,  I  hope  may  be  kindly 
allowed  for  by  my  indulgent  readers,  in  view  of  the  fact  that 
my  work  has  mostly  been  done  at  night,  after  I  had  already 
wrought  diligently  throughout  the  day  in  other  lines  of 
action. 

I  hope  that  those  who  read  this  book  at  all  will  read  it 
thoroughly  from  end  to  end,  as  in  that  way  alone  can  a  proper 
understanding  of  it  be  had. 


6  MEMORIALS  OE  THE  QUISENBERRY  EAMILY 

For  a  more  detailed  account  of  our  family  in  America  the 
reader  is  referred  to  Genealogical  Memoranda  of  the  Qicisen- 
berry  Family published  in  1897. 

Washington,  D.  C,  Angust  75,  igoo. 


IX  GERMANY,  ENGLAND 


AND  AMERICA. 


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A  CONSTRUCTIVE  DESCENT. 


The  following  descent  lacks  absolute  contirmation  iu  only  a  few  instances ; 
and  the  presumptive  eTideuce  even  in  those  instances  is  so  strong  as  to  render 
their  correctness  practically  certain  : 

1.  Tielmann  Quesci^nberg,  born  in  Bodenfelde,  Brunswick,  Germany,  about 

1380.  Settled  in  Cologne,  Germany,  in  1424,  where  he  died  in  1446. 
Married  Sybilla  von  Suchtelu,  and  had 

2.  Bertold  Questenberg :  lived  and  died  in  Cologne,    In  1445  married  Mar- 

gareth   ,  and  had 

3*.  Henricus  Questenberg.  born  in  Cologne  about  1446  :  educated  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Cologne.    Aliout  1467  married  Catherine    in  England, 

and  had 

4.  Augustine  Questynbery>  of  Canterbury,  England,  born  about  1468 :  died 

about  1510.    Married  and  had 

5.  John  Questenbury,  of  Canterbury,  born  about  1493.    Married  and  had 

6.  Henry  Questenbury,  of  Canterbury,  born  about  1517.    Married  and  had 

7.  Henry  Questenbery.  of  Leeds,  Kent,  England,  born  about  1541.  Married 

Mildred  about  1562,  and  had 

8.  James  Quessonberry  (as  it  is  spelled  on  the  church  register),  born  in  Leeds, 

Kent,  November  15,  1578  :  died  in  East  Greenwich,  Kent,  September  16. 
1620.    Married  Joan  ,  and  had 

9.  Thomas  Questenbury.  born  in  Bromley,  Kent,  March  16,  1608.    Went  to 

Virginia  about  1625  and  remained  there  until  1650,  when  he  returned  to 
England,  settling  in  Canterbury.    Married  in  Virginia  and  had 

10.  John  Quessenbury,  of  Westmoreland  county,  Virginia,  born  in  1027 :  died 

1717.    Married  Anne  Pope,  and  had 

11.  Humphrey  Quesenbury,  born  in  Westmoreland  county,  Virginia,  not  later 

than  1674:  died  in  King  George  county.  Virginia,  not  later  than  1727. 
Married  and  had 

12.  Thomas  Quesenbury.  born  in  King  George  county  and  died  in  Caroline 

county,  Virginia  :  dates  not  known.    Married  and  had 

13.  Aaron  Quisenberry,  born  in  Caroline  county,  Virginia,  probably  about 

1715;  died  in  Orange  county.  Virginia,  in  1795.  Married  Joyce  Dudley 
(as  is  supposed)  and  had 

14.  Bev.  James  Quisenberry,  born  iu  Spottsylvania  county.  Virginia,  July  5, 

1759:  died  in. Clark  county,  Kentucky,  August  5,  1830,  having  settled  in 
Kentucky  in  1783.  On  December  4,  1776,  he  married  Jane  Burris,  of 
Orange  county,  Virginia,  and  had 

15.  Colby  Burris  Quisenberry,  born  in  Clark  county,  Kentucky  (then  Fayette 

county,  Virginia),  July  7,  1788,  and  died  there  December  30,  1870.  On 
December  16,  1810,  he  married  L  icy  Bush,  of  the  same  county,  and  had 


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16.  James  Francis  Quisenberry,  born  in  Madison  county,  Kentucky,  October 

15,  1824  ;  died  in  Clark  county,  Kentucky,  February  3,  1877.  On  October 
14,  1847,  be  married  Emily  Cameron  Chenault,  of  Madison  county,  Ken- 
tucky, and  had 

17.  Anderson  Chenault  Quisenberry,  born  in  Clark  county,  Kentucky,  October 

26,  1850.  On  May  1,  1879,  he  married  Corinna  Broomhall,  of  Springfield, 
Ohio,  and  had 

18.  James  Francis  Quisenberry,  born  in  Lexington,  Kentucky,  July  10,  1886. 


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INTRODUCTION. 

One  generation  passeth  azvay,  and  a?iother  generation  cotneth  ;  but  the 
earth  abideth  Ecclesiastes,  i,  4. 

The  family  which  in  America  styles  itself  Ouisenberry, 
Quesenbury,  Quesenberry,  etc.,  has  a  strange  and  interesting 
history.  So  far  as  is  at  present  known,  it  originated  in  the 
Harz  mountains,  in  that  part  of  ancient  Saxony  now  known 
as  Brunswick.  The  earliest  record  that  has  been  discovered 
concerning  any  member  of  the  family  shows  that  he  was  in 
1418  a  merchant  of  the  Hanseatic  League,  doing  business  in 
IvOndon,  but  retaining  his  citizenship,  or  home,  in  Lubeck, 
Germany.  From  1418  to  1515  (and  perhaps  much  later) 
several  members  of  the  family  were  engaged  in  the  Hanse 
trade  in  London,  all  of  whom  were  from  Cologne,  Germany. 

The  Hanseatic  League  and  its  merchants  are  well  worth 
studying,  but,  of  course,  they  can  be  mentioned  but  briefly 
here.  The  Hanse  merchants  appeared  in  England  as  early 
as  the  year  879,  in  Saxon  times,  and  remained  there  until 
1599,  a  period  of  seven  hundred  and  twenty  years  ;  and  they 
created  and  built  up  England's  trade  and  manufactures,  minted 
her  money,  and  undoubtedly  laid  the  foundations  of  the  com- 
mercial supremacy  which  has  made  her  the  mistress  of  the 
seas.  The  term  "  sterling,"  as  applied  to  English  money, 
originated  from  the  name  "  Easterling,"  which  the  English 
applied  first  to  the  Cologne  merchants,  and  afterwards  to  all 
the  merchants  of  the  Hanseatic  League  who  were  domiciled 
in  London. 

In  that  subdivision  of  this  book  called  The  Doctnneiits  may 
be  found  much  interesting  information,  culled  from  various 
sources,  concerning  the  Hanse  merchants  of  London. 

The  English  family  of  Questenbery,  Questenbury,  etc., 
must  have  originated  about  1468,  from  one  of  the  Hanse 
merchants  in  London  named  Ouestenberg,  who  came  from 
Cologne,  but  married  an  Englishw^oman,  settled  permanently 


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in  England,  and  became  an  English  citizen.  Many  of  the 
Hanse  merchants  did  this,  notwithstanding  the  severe  penalty 
of  being  expelled  the  Hanse,  and  forfeiting  all  their  financial 
interests  in  Hanseatic  affairs,  which  invariably  followed  their 
marriage  with  English  women.  The  young  Questenberg,  who 
gave  up  all  for  an  honest  love,  was  evidently  disinherited  and 
disowned  by  his  father,  for  there  are  proofs  that  he  began 
making  his  livelihood  in  England  in  an  humble  way,  and 
very  likely  with  but  little  capital  other  than  his  strong  right 
arm  and  the  love  of  his  bonny  English  bride,  for  whom  he 
had  given  up  country,  rank,  and  fortune.  The  Quisenberrys 
(however  spelled)  of  America  are  all  descended  from  that 
brave,  manly,  and  high-minded  young  German  of  four  hun- 
dred and  fifty  years  ago  ;  and  we  have  more  right  to  be  proud 
of  him  than  if  he  had  been  a  king  upon  a  throne. 

It  is  probable  that  he  settled  first  in  London,  and  went  into 
business  there,  it  may  be,  as  a  cloth  merchant  in  a  small  way, 
or  perhaps  as  a  merchant  tailor.  The  Hanse  merchants  of 
the  family  generally  dealt  in  cloth.  The  first  Englishman  of 
the  family  of  whom  positive  record  has  been  found  was  a 
"tailour"  in  Canterbury  in  1490;  and  it  was  doubtless  in 
that  old  cathedral  city  that  the  founder  of  the  English  branch 
of  the  family  met  and  married  his  English  wife.  Canterbury 
was  directly  on  the  route  that  would  be  followed  by  travelers 
going  from  the  continent  to  London,  or  vice  versa ;  and  in 
those  days  it  was  doubtless  a  place  where  they  had  to  stay 
overnight  on  the  journey  between  the  port  and  the  metropolis. 

After  the  "  tailour  "  there  were,  from  time  to  time,  mem- 
bers of  the  family  in  England  who  were  shoemakers,  cord- 
wainers,  glaziers,  grocers,  yeomen,  clergymen,  and  gentlemen  ; 
and  all  of  them,  in  whatever  walk  of  life,  were  apparently 
thrifty  people.  In  the  later  records  some  of  the  name  appear 
as  living  in  Maidstone,  Eeeds,  Dover,  Deal,  Chatham, 
Rochester,  Hoo,  Bromley,  and  East  Greenwich,  all  (as  well 
as  Canterbury)  in  the  County  of  Kent ;  and  some  also  lived 
in  the  city  of  London. 


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_It  may  be  interesting  to  consider  briefly  the  places  in  Ger- 
many and  England  in  which  the  family  is  known  to  have 
lived,  as  well  as  the  occupations  its  members  have  followed. 

In  the  copies  of  German  records  published  in  The  Docu- 
ments there  are  frequent  references  to  the  Holy  Roman  Em- 
pire, of  which  many  memibers  of  the  family  were  Barons, 
Counts,  etc.;  and  at  least  one  of  them  was  a  Royal  Imperial 
Councillor,  or  member  of  the  Emperor's  cabinet  of  advisers. 
The  Holy  Roman  Empire,  though  vaguely  claiming  a  much 
greater  antiquity,  was,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  primarily  estab- 
lished by  Charlemagne  in  Soo,  but  acquired  actual  stability 
in  962  under  Otto  the  Great,  King  of  the  West  Franks  ;  and 
from  his  time  on  there  was  an  unbroken  succession  of  Ger- 
man Kings  who  took  the  name  and  enjoyed  the  titular  rank 
and  rights  of  Roman  Emperors,  claiming  to  be  successors  to 
Augustus  and  Constantine  ;  and  these  Emperors  were  acknowl- 
edged in  the  western  countries  and  by  the  Latin  Church 
as  the  heads  of  the  whole  Christian  community.  Their 
power,  however,  was  practically  confined  to  Germany  and 
Northern  Italy,  and  became  very  weak  even  in  those  coun- 
tries after  1250.  The  government  of  the  Holy  Roman  Empire 
was  never  an  absolute  monarchy,  and  such  powers  as  it  had  at 
its  best  diminished  greatly,  so  that  the  imperial  prerogatives 
became  very  vague  and  uncertain.  The  imperial  crown  was,  in 
theorv,  elective  ;  and  from  1440  to  1S06  all  the  Emperors 
except  two  belonged  to  the  house  of  Hapsburg.  In  1806  Fran- 
cis II,  of  Hapsburg,  resigned  his  imperial  title,  and  with  him 
the  Holy  Roman  Empire  ended. 

The  citv  of  Cologne  was  founded  in  51  A.  D.  by  the 
Romans,  and  has  always  been  a  place  of  importance.  It  was 
loner  a  free  citv  and  continued  to  be  one  after  it  was  annexed 
to  the  Holy  Roman  Empire  in  8 70.  It  was  the  first  of  the 
German  cities  to  attain  any  considerable  commercial  impor- 
tance, and  was  for  a  long  time  one  of  the  most  important 
factors  of  the  Hanseatic  League.  It  was  the  first  German 
citv  that  sent  Hanse  merchants  to  London,  and  thus  the 
term  "  Cologne  merchant     was  known  there  a  great  while 


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before  the  expression  "  Hanse  merchant "  came  into  use. 
For  many  years  the  Diets  of  the  Empire  sat  in  Cologne.  The 
city  was  always  a  stronghold  of  the  Roman  Catholic  faith, 
and  is  said  to  owe  its  decline,  in  a  large  measure,  to  its  intol- 
erance in  expelling  Jews  and  Protestants  from  its  borders.  It 
is  very  irregularly  built,  and  the  older  streets  are  narrow, 
crooked  and  dirty.  The  English  poet  Coleridge  visited  the 
place  in  1804,  and  this  is  how  it  inspired  his  muse  : 

"  In  Cologne,  a  town  of  monks  and  bones, 
And  pavements  fanged  with  murderous  stones; 
And  rags,  and  hags,  and  hideous  wenches, — 
I  counted  two-and-seventy  stenches, 
All  well-defined  and  several  stinks !  " 

It  is  well  to  state,  however,  that  when  Coleridge  visited 
Cologne  the  Questenberg  family  had  been  extinct  there  for 
some  time.  Otherwise  the  town  might  have  smelled  better, 
and  his  imagination  might  have  been  sweetened ;  and,  fur- 
thermore, he  would,  beyond  doubt,  have  seen  some  good- 
looking  women  in  the  place. 

Kent  is  a  maritime  county  in  the  southeastern  corner  of 
England,  and  is  the  portion  of  England  that  lies  nearest  to 
the  continent  of  Europe.  It  was  in  this  county,  near  the 
present  town  of  Deal,  that  Csesar  landed  with  his  Roman 
legions  in  55  B.  C.  He  found  the  county  settled  by  a  tribe  of 
Belgse,  from  Gaul — the  ancestors  of  the  modern  Belgians, 
and  doubtless  also  of  the  Angles  and  Saxons  who  later  occu- 
pied all  England.  These  Belgoe  had  disposessed  the  native 
Britons  of  a  large  part  of  southeastern  England  and  of  the 
whole  of  Kent.  They  are  described  as,  upon  the  whole,  a 
very  fine  people,  with  some  curious  customs,  among  which 
was  that  of  brothers  possessing  their  wives  in  common. 

The  Romans  occupied  Kent  for  about  four  hundred  and 
fifty  years,  and  after  them  came  the  Saxons,  and,  at  inter- 
vals, those  all-devouring  "  wolves  of  the  sea,"  the  Danes,  un- 
der their  standard  of  the  thievish  Raven  ;  and,  finally,  in 
1066,  came  the  Normans.  And  all  these — Britons,  Belgse, 
Romans,  Saxons,  Danes  and  Normans,  laid  well  the  founda- 


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tions  of  "pure  Eng-lish  blood."  Under  the  Saxon  regime, 
Kent  was  an  independent  kingdom,  and  perhaps  the  most 
powerful  of  the  heptarchy. 

That  "  the  men  of  Kent  "  and  "  the  Kentishmen  "  have,  as 
a  type,  always  been  of  strong  character  and  individuality,  is 
sufficiently  evidenced  by  the  fact  that  they  have  been  able  to 
maintain  through  all  and  varying  vicissitudes  many  of  their 
old  Saxon  customs — such,  for  instance,  as  the  law  of  gavel- 
kind— which  have  not  survived  elsewhere  in  England. 
Kentish  soil  seems  ever  to  have  been  the  breeding-  o-round  of 
that  spirit  of  protest  against  injustice  and  oppression  which 
has  served,  through  the  centuries,  to  gradually  build  England 
into  what  she  is  to-day — among  all  the  nations  the  advance 
guard  of  the  forces  of  civilization. 

It  was  in  Kent  that  Wat  Tyler's  "insurrection,"  as  it  is 
called,  occurred  in  1381  ;  and  Jack  Cade's  rising  in  1450  was 
also  one  of  Kentishmen.  These  uprisings — the  indignant 
protests  of  honest  English  hearts — have  not  been  treated  fairly 
in  history.  Instead  of  being  the  traitorous  and  reprehensible 
affairs  the  historians  have  pictured  them,  they  were  rather  the 
efflorescence  of  true  patriotism — the  justifiable  and  praiseworthy 
revolts  of  good  and  honest  men  against  the  aggressions, 
oppressions  and  injustice  of  an  idle  and  worthless  privileged 
class  who  sought  to  exploit  and  despoil  them.  Wat  Tyler 
and  Jack  Cade  truly  had  hearts  of  English  oak,  and  they 
deserve  places  in  English  history  alongside  of  Oliver  Cromwell 
and  John  Hampden.  The  beneficial  results  of  their  protests 
have  been  felt  in  every  subsequent  moment,  wherever  the 
English  blood  has  gone  or  the  English  tongue  has  spoken. 

Speaking  of  Tyler's  insurrection,  Thorold  Rogers  says  : 
"The  true  cause  was  the  incidents  of  villeinage,  and  the  dis- 
satisfaction felt  at  revived  oppression.  It  is  noteworthy  that 
Kent  took  the  lead  in  the  movement.  But  there  were  no  serfs 
in  Kent.  To  have  been  born  in  that  county,  and  to  prove 
one's  birth  there,  was  a  bar  to  the  proceedings  by  which  a  lord 
claimed  the  recovery  of  his  serf.  In  the  m.any  accounts  which 
I  have  read  from  the  County  of  Kent  there  is  no  trace  of  the 


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serf-tenure,  or  the  serf.  .  .  .  Kent  was  the  headquarters 
of  Cade's  revolt  in  1450,  and  took  action  in  ahnost  all  consider- 
able events  up  to  the  days  of  the  Commonwealth." 

At  all  times  Kentishmen  have  prided  themselves  upon  being 
"  the  most  English  of  Englishmen."  Moreover,  the  County 
of  Kent,  and  especially  the  valley  of  the  Medway  and  the 
district  about  Maidstone,  has  been  called  "  the  garden  of 
England."  Many  of  the  ancient  Questenburys  (as  they  spelled 
the  name)  lived  in  or  near  Maidstone,  and  nearly  all  of  them 
lived  in  the  valle}^  of  the  Medway.  So  we  of  the  name,  at  this 
day  may  mark  the  happy  fortune  which,  like  a  good  fairy,  has 
ever  attended  our  race.  We  have  been  transplanted  from 
Kent  to  Kentucky — from  the  garden  of  England  to  the  garden 
of  America.  Kentucky,  and  especially  the  blue-grass  region 
about  Lexington  (in  which  Quisenberrys  have  lived  since  the 
first  settlement  of  the  State),  is  the  acknowledged  garden  of 
America.  And  as  the  Kentishmen  are  "the  most  English  of 
Englishmen,"  so  also  Kentuckians  are  the  most  English 
people  of  our  newer  England,  America.  Prof.  Shaler,  in  his 
history  of  Kentucky  (1885),  says  :  "In  Kentucky  we  shall 
find  nearly  pure  English  blood,  mainly  derived  through  the 
Old  Dominion,  and  altogether  from  districts  that  shared  the 
Virginia  conditions.  It  is,  moreover,  the  largest  body  of  pure 
English  folk  that  has,  generally  speaking,  been  separated 
from  the  mother  country  for  two  hundred  years."  And  so 
the  translation  of  our  stock  from  Kent  to  Kentucky,  across 
almost  three  hundred  years  of  time  and  nearly  four  thousand 
miles  of  land  and  water,  has  really  been  but  a  natural  passage 
from  like  unto  like. 

The  city  of  Canterbury,  where  our  name  first  appears  as 
that  of  an  Englishman,  is  very  ancient.  The  Romans  found 
a  town  there  in  55  B.  C,  which  they  called  Dudovernum  ; 
and  after  their  time  Ethelbert,  the  fourth  Saxon  King  of 
Kent,  established  his  capital  there,  and  called  the  town  Cant- 
warabyrig  ("  the  town  of  the  Kentishmen ")  and  in  the 
course  of  time  this  was  euphonized  into  Canterbury.  This 
ancient  city  has  long  been  the  ecclesiastical  metropolis  of 


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England,  and  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  Primate  of  all 
England,  has  had  his  official  seat  there  for  many  centuries. 
It  is  but  natural  that  this  should  be  so,  since  it  was  at  Can- 
terbury that  Christianity  was  first  permanently  established  in 
England  in  596,  by  St.  Augustine  and  his  fellow-missionaries 
from  Rome  ;  and  St.  Martin's  Church,  in  Canterbury,  is  the 
very  earliest  seat  of  English  Christianity,  as  it  was  in  this 
church  that  Bertha,  the  Queen  of  Ethelbert,  was  baptized 
before  Augustine's  arrival. 

Kentucky  members  of  our  family  will,  doubtless,  be  inter- 
ested in  the  fact  that  the  word  canter^  which  designates  a 
favorite  gait  of  Kentucky  horses,  comes  from  the  expression 
"  Canterbury  gallop,"  the  easy  pace  at  which  pilgrims  rode 
to  Canterbury  in  the  olden  time,  when  going  to  do  reverence 
at  the  shrine  of  the  martyr  Thomas  A' Beckett. 

Of  the  other  towns  and  villages  in  Kent,  in  which  members 
of  our  family  lived  in  the  past  centuries,  it  is  not  necessary  to 
say  much  here.  Maidstone  is  the  shire-town  ;  or,  as  it  would 
be  called  in  America,  ''county-seat."  Rochester  and  Chat- 
ham, both  ancient,  are  really  one  city.  Charles  Dickens  was 
born  in  or  near  Chatham,  and  in  one  of  his  short  stories  he 
says:  "If  any  one  knows  to  a  nicety  where  Rochester  ends 
and  Chatham  begins,  he  knows  more  than  I  do."  The  village 
of  Bromley  was  (in  1608)  the  birthplace  of  the  first  person  of 
our  name  who  came  to  America,  and  it  was  then  fourteen 
miles  from  London,  of  which  it  is  now  a  part.  The  father  of 
this  pioneer  to  America  was  born  in  the  village  of  Leeds, 
where  his  grandfather  was  living  certainly  as  early  as  1563. 
Leeds  is  about  four  miles  from  Maidstone,  and  was  long  the 
seat  of  Leeds  Priory,  a  Saxon  foundation  ;  and  Leeds  Castle, 
a  beautiful  and  majestic  pile,  is  still  there,  one  of  the  best 
preserved  ^  pecimens  of  ancient  English  castles.  It  is  interest- 
ing to  know  that  Leeds  Castle  was  once  the  home  of  the 
Fairfax  family,  some  of  whom  came  to  \^irginia  and  were 
prominent  in  Colonial  affairs.  Several  short  histories  of  the 
village  and  parish  of  Leeds  have  been  printed,  but  none  of 
them  are  satisfactory.    St.  Nicholas,  the  parish  church,  is 


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very  ancient,  and  its  remarkable  square  tower  is  much  more 
ancient  than  the  body  of  the  church.  This  tower  is  believed 
to  have  been  a  Saxon  fortification.  The  chime  of  bells  in  this 
old  church  is  said  to  be  the  finest  in  Kent. 

The  church  registers  of  the  neighboring  parishes  of  Maid- 
stone and  Leeds  show  the  entries,  three  hundred  and  fifty 
years  ago,  of  such  unusual  names  as  Brockman,  Couchman, 
Haggard,  Hickman,  Trussell,  Eubanks,  Stubblefield,  and 
Quessenbury.  Unusual  as  these  names  are,  however,  for 
many  years  they  were  all  numerously  represented  in  Clark 
county,  Kentucky  ;  and  this  fact  may  serve  to  show  how 
strong  a  strain  of  ancient  Kentish  blood  flows  in  the  veins  of 
the  people  who  inhabit  central  Kentucky.  In  the  County  of 
Kent  the  ties  of  kinship  are  so  extensive  that  the  expression 
"  Kentish  cousins  "  has  become  a  proverb.  The  word  cousin 
probably  nowhere  else  in  the  world  expresses  the  same  mean- 
ing that  it  does  in  Kent,  in  England,  and  in  Virginia  and 
Kentucky,  in  America. 

It  will  be  seen  that  in  its  history  in  Germany  and  England 
the  family  has  had  among  its  members  several  monks  and  one 
Saint  (St.  Cuniberte),  and  its  other  members  have  ranged  in 
"  occupations  "  from  highly  ornamental  Lords,  Barons,  and 
Counts  to  such  useful  and  indispensable  members  of  society 
as  tailors,  shoemakers,  etc.  Of  all  these  classes,  we  of  to-day 
have  most  reason  to  be  proud  of  those  of  our  forbears  who 
who  were  useful  men  ;  for  though  the  Lord  and  the  Count 
and  the  Baron  may  be  gorgeous  creatures,  of  much  dignity, 
pomp,  and  magnificence,  yet  the  world  could  get  along  all  the 
better  without  them.  But  in  what  would  men  be  better  than 
savages  except  for  the  tailors,  the  shoemakers,  and  the  people 
who  make  things  ?  Truly  has  Carlyle  said  in  Sartor  Resartus  : 
"  Society,  which  the  more  I  think  of  it  astonishes  me  the 
more,  is  founded  upon  Clothes.  Often  in  my  atrabiliar  moods, 
when  I  read  of  pompous  ceremonials.  Royal  Drawing  Rooms, 
Levees,  Couchees,  and  how  the  ushers  and  macers  and  pursui- 


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vants  are  all  in  waiting  ;  how  Dnke  This  is  presented  by 
Archbishop  That,  and  Colonel  A  by  General  B,  and  innnme- 
rable  Bishops,  Admirals,  and  miscellaneons  Functionaries  are 
advancing  gallantly  to  the  Anointed  Presence  ;  and  I  strive, 
in  my  remote  privacy,  to  form  a  clear  picture  of  that  solem- 
nity— on  a  sudden,  as  by  some  enchanter's  wand  (shall  I 
speak  it  ?)  the  clothes  fly  off  the  wdiole  dramatic  corps,  and 
Dukes,  Grandees,  Bishops,  Generals,  even  the  Anointed  Pres- 
ence itself — every  mother's  son  of  them  stand  straddling  there 
with  not  a  shirt  on  them,  and  I  know  not  whether  to  laugh 
or  weep." 

The  world's  grandees  and  potentates  have  ever  been  but 
stumbling-blocks  in  the  w^ay  of  the  progress  of  humanity.  No 
great  fundamental  reform  in  history  has  ever  come  from  the 
ruling  or  aristocratic  classes,  but  always  from  those  who  have 
been  pinched  by  poverty.  The  Savior  of  mankind  clearly 
understood  this  fact  when  he  chose  as  his  disciples  and  coad- 
jutors only  the  very  humblest  men.  History  shows  that  the 
greatest  reform  in  the  annals  of  England,  and  to  which  the 
Anglo-Saxon  race  largely  owes  its  present  measure  of  politi- 
cal and  religious  liberty,  w^as  accomplished  by  men  w^ho 
occupied  the  "  common  "  stations  in  life.  It  was  an  uprising 
from  the  very  foundation,  and  those  commonly  called  the 
"  dregs  of  society  "  defeated  royalty  and  nobility  everywhere. 
Joyce,  the  tailor ;  Pride,  the  drayman  ;  Venner,  the  cooper  ; 
Tuffnell,  the  carpenter ;  Qkey,  the  fireman ;  Deane,  the 
servant,  and  Cromw^ell,  the  brewer,  with  other  tradesmen, 
gained  control  of  Parliament,  and  wielded  an  influence  on 
behalf  of  the  people  which  will  continue  to  radiate  until  the 
end  of  time. 

lycaving,  therefore,  our  Barons  and  Counts  to  the  presence 
wherewith  our  tailors  and  shoemakers  have  encased  them,  we 
come  now  to  speak  of  those  other  occupations  wherewith  our 
forefathers  busied  themselves.  There  were  among  them  those 
who  wrote  themselves  "Gentleman."  "What  is  a  gentle- 
man?" is  a  question  that  has  been  mooted  in  some  of  the 
American  newspapers  ;  and  one  of  them  gave  the  surprising 


t8        memorials  of  the  ouisenberry  family 

definition  that  "A  gentleman  is  a  man  who  doesn't  work,  and 
is  out  of  jail." 

Blomefield's  History  of  Norfolk  (Vol.  3,  page  782)  says  the 
first  time  the  title  gentleman  was  used  in  any  deed  was 
Edward  III,  4  (133 1),  when  Sir  Thomas  de  Haville  sold  lands 
in  Kettleston  to  John  Temper,  Gentleman.  The  Encyclo- 
paedia Britannica  (ninth  edition)  in  a  foot-note  to  the  article  on 
Precede7ice^  says  :  "  The  heralds  and  lawyers  are  agreed  that 
'  gentlemen  '  are  those  who  by  inheritance,  or  by  grant  from 
the  Crown,  are  entitled  to  bear  coat  armor."  (See  Coke,  Inst, 
iv,  c.  77;  Blackstone  Comm.  i,  chap.  12;  Titles  of  Honor, 
pt.  2,  ch.  8  ;  Guillim's  Display  of  Heraldry,  pt.  2,  ch.  26.) 

One  Harrison,  a  unique  painter  of  manners  in  the  reign  of 
Elizabeth,  gives  the  modus  operandi oi  evolving  a  gentleman, 
to  wit :  "  Whosoever  studieth  the  laws  of  the  realm,  whoso 
abidetli  in  the  university,  giving  his  mind  to  his  book,  or 
professeth  physic  or  the  liberal  sciences,  or  beside  his  service 
in  the  room  of  a  captain  in  the  wars,  or  good  counsel  given 
at  home  whereby  his  commonwealth  is  benefited,  can  live 
without  manual  labour,  and  thereto  is  able  and  will  bear  the 
port,  charge,  and  countenance  of  a  gentleman — he  shall,  for 
money,  have  a  coat  and  arms  bestowed  upon  him  by  the 
heralds  (who  in  the  charter  of  the  same  do,  of  custom,  pre- 
tend antiquity  and  services,  and  many  gay  things)  and  there- 
unto being  made  so  good  cheap,  be  called  Master — which  is 
the  title  men  give  to  esquires  and  gentlemen — and  be  reputed 
for  a  gentleman  ever  after." 

At  least  one  member  of  the  family  in  England  was  a  clergy- 
man ;  but  it  is  hardly  necessary  to  describe  the  duties  and 
status  of  a  clergyman  of  the  Church  of  England.  When  he 
has  not  already  higher  rank  he  necessarily  takes  rank  as  a 
gentleman. 

Two  members  of  the  family  were  grocers  in  London,  and 
were  members  of  the  Worshipful  Company  of  Grocers  of  that 
city,  one  of  the  wealthiest  and  most  ancient  of  the  guilds  ; 
and  its  members  were,  of  course,  freemen  of  the  corporation 
of  Eondon — that  is,  citizens  with  the  right  of  suffrage,  a  class 


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it  was  often  the  case  that  the  younger  merchants  fell  in  love 
with  and  married  English  girls,  notwithstanding  the  severe 
financial  penalties.  These,  almost  without  exception,  settled 
down  to  some  useful  occupation  in  London,  or  elsewhere  in 
England,  and  became  the  founders  of  English  families  ;  and, 
of  course,  their  German  names  became  Anglicized,  and  were 
more  or  less  changed  in  the  process. 

IV. 

In  Cologne  the  Questenbergs  were  men  of  great  wealth,  and 
from  time  to  time  filled  most  of  the  important  municipal 
ofhces,  and  some  of  them  sat  in  the  Cologne  Senate  ;  yet  they 
remained  burghers  or  commoners  for  many  years.  Before  the 
year  1600  the  family  was  ennobled  and  granted  a  coat  of 
arms,  and  as  a  pedigree  of  the  line  by  a  prominent  German 
genealogist  (Fahne),  extending  from  before  the  time  they 
were  ennobled  down  almost  to  the  time  they  became  extinct, 
is  given  in  The  Documents^  it  need  not  be  repeated  here,  fur- 
ther than  to  quote  the  opening  sentence  :  "  Qitesteiiberg.—K 
Cologne  family  which,  remarkable  as  it  is,  rose  in  three  gen- 
erations from  ordinary  burghers  to  be  Barons,  Counts,  Imperial 
Counts  and  Princes." 

A  copy  of  the  coat  of  arms  of  the  Cologne  family  of  Oues- 
tenberg,  taken  from  that  in  the  official  Wappenbuch  of  the 
cit)^  of  Cologne,  is  reproduced  as  the  frontispiece  of  this  work. 
A  technical  description  of  the  arms  is  given  in  another  place. 

The  wills  of  the  ancient  citizens  of  Cologne  are  now  pre- 
served in  the  Royal  Archives  at  Dusseldorf,  and  from  thence 
have  been  procured  copies  of  seven  wills  of  Questenbergs, 
extending  from  1523  to  1646,  and  these  are  printed  in 
The  Documents^  some  in  whole  and  some  in  part.  They 
are  well  worth  reading,  and  they  show  very  clearly  the 
status  of  the  Questenberg  family  for  the  period  they  cover,  so 
that  need  not  be  gone  into  here.  Johann  Questenborch, 
whose  will  is  dated  January  3,  1523,  was  the  son  of  Bertold- 
and  the  grandson  of  Bertold\  the  son  of  Tielmann.  Johann's 


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son  Bertholdt'^  was  also  a  Hanse  merchant  in  England,  where 
he  seems  to  have  been  a  rattling  blade  and  a  riotons  liver. 
However  he  pulled  himself  together;  and  in  1543  died  rich 
and  respected,  and  in  the  odor  of  sanctity.  The  most  illus- 
trious member  of  the  family  who  ever  lived  in  Cologne  seems 
to  have  been  "  The  noble  Lord  Hermann  von  Questenberg, 
Lord  of  Gross-Kolschaw,  Pomeisel,  Strogetitz  and  Erdtberg, 
Court  Councillor  of  His  Roman  Imperial  Majesty." 

There  is  no  earlier  Questenberg  will  now  on  file  than  that 
of  Johann  Questenberg,  1523  ;  but  in  the  miscellaneous 
records  reference  is  made  to  the  will  of  Tielmann  Questen- 
berg, who  died  in  1446.  Doubtless  there  were  other  Ques- 
tenberg wills  between  that  time  and  1523,  but  they  are  now 
lost,  which  is  much  to  be  regretted,  as  they  would  be  of  much 
greater  interest  than  the  later  wills,  interesting  as  the  later 
ones  are. 

Some  of  us,  no  doubt,  will  take  a  deep  interest  in  reading 
in  these  old  wills  about  the  Lords  and  Barons  and  Counts  who 
who  have  adorned  the  annals  of  our  family's  history.  It  is 
certainly  a  consolation  to  know  that  they  were  not  "  robber 
Barons,"  but  made  their  money  honestly  and  by  their  own 
exertions — which  is  a  great  deal  more  than  can  be  said  of 
many  Lords  and  Barons  and  noblemen  of  high  degree. 

A  very  interesting  statement  is  that  of  Lord  Frederick 
Constantine  von  Questenberg  who,  in  1646,  when  about  to 
renounce  the  pomps  and  vanities  of  this  wicked  world  and 
enter  a  monastery,  made  a  will  ;  for,  as  he  said,  when  he 
became  a  monk,  he  "  suffered  a  spiritual  death  with  respect  to 
the  world  and  its  possessions."  In  this  will  he  makes  the 
surprising  statement  that  he  was  "  more  than  seven  feet  tall  !  " 
A  yet  greater  interest  attaches  to  this  statement  when  it  is 
remembered  that  "  the  old  stock  "  of  Quisenberrys  in  Virginia 
were  very  tall  men.  Rev.  James  Qnisenberry,  who  went  from 
Virginia  to  Kentucky  in  1783,  was  six  feet  six  inches  in 
height  ;  Dr.  John  Qnisenberry,  who,  much  later,  also  went 
to  Kentucky,  was  six  feet  and  seven  inches  ;  several  others 
were  almost  as  tall,  and  but  few  of  the  men  of  the  family 
were  under  six  feet  and  four  inches. 


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To  this  same  will  of  Lord  Frederick  Constantine  Ouesten- 
berg  we  are  indebted  for  the  information  that  we  have  had  a 
real  canonized  saint  in  our  family.  He  bequeaths  to  his 
much-beloved  noble  uncle  St.  Cuniberte,  of  Cologne,  150 
Cologne  thaler,  as  a  remembrance.''  The  routine  of  a  saint's 
life  in  those  days  is  believed  to  have  consisted  in  living  in  a 
squalid  hut,  counting  beads,  and  refraining  from  washing 
himself.  From  this  latter  fact  may  have  arisen  the  expres- 
sion, ''the  odor  of  sanctity,''  so  often  applied  to  saints  and 
holy  men. 

The  Countess  Elizabeth  Constantina  von  Ouestenberg,  the 
sister  of  Lord  Frederick  Constantine,  above  mentioned,  mar- 
ried Gundacker,  Prince  of  Diederichstein  ;  and  their  uncle, 
Caspar  von  Ouestenberg,  became  the  Abbott  of  the  famous 
Strahoff  ^Monastery  in  Prague.  He  was  a  very  learned  man, 
and  his  biography  has  been  published  several  times  in 
Prague. 

The  family  of  Ouestenberg  became  extinct  in  Cologne 
"  before  1797.''  The  wonder  is  that  it  did  not  become  extinct 
long  before  that  time,  as  so  many  of  them  became  monks 
and  nuns.  It  may  be  well  to  state  that  the  Ouestenbergs  of 
Cologne  educated  their  sons  at  the  best  German  universities, 
and  many  individuals  of  the  family  instituted  prominent 
religious  foundations. 

V. 

Some  time  after  1600  a  branch  of  the  Cologne  family  of 
Ouestenberg  went  to  Austria,  where  they  became  even  more 
distinguished  than  the  parent  stem  at  Cologne.  The  line  of 
the  Austrian  branch  is  included  in  the  Ouestenberg  genealogy 
in  TJic  Documents.  Count  Johann  Adam  von  Ouestenberg 
was  Councillor  of  War  to  the  Emperor  of  Austria,  and  was 
one  of  the  most  famous  War  ^Ministers  known  to  Europe. 
His  memory  has  been  embalmed  in  literature  as  a  principal 
character  in  Schiller's  PiccoIoiiunL  The  Austrian  branch  of 
the  family  became  extinct  upon  his  death  in  1752  without 


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male  issue.  To  the  Count  of  Kaunitz-Rietburg,  whose  sister 
he  had  married,  he  left  by  will  his  coat  of  arms  but  not  his 
title.  An  account  of  the  Count  of  Kaunitz-Rietburg  may  be 
found  in  the  Kncyclopsedia  Britannica. 

The  arms  of  the  Austrian  branch  of  the  Questenberg  family 
were  : 

Ecartele  de  or  et  de  azur,  au  hon  de  sable  arme  et  lampassee, 
de  gules  la  queue  fourchette  brochant  sur  les  ecarteleurs. 
Casque  couronne. 

Cimie7^ : — Un  panache  de  douze  plumes  de  autriche,  ecartele 
de  or  et  de  azur. 

Lambreqiiin  .•— De  or  et  de  azur. 

The  arms  of  Questenberg  of  Cologne  are  almost  identical 
with  these,  the  principal  difference  being  that  while  the 
Austrian  branch  had  a  dozen  ostrich  plumes  in  their  crest 
the  Cologne  family  had  but  five. 

It  appears  that  a  branch  of  the  Cologne  family  of  Questen- 
berg settled  in  Silesia,  but  there  are  none  of  the  name  there 
now,  and  that  branch  has  probably  also  been  extinct  for  many 
years. 

In  1899  the  directories  showed  that  there  was  no  person  of 
the  name  of  Questenberg  in  any  of  the  cities  of  Germany  or 
Austria.  The  nearest  approach  to  it — and  it  is  very  close — 
is  the  name  of  a  widow,  Rob  :  Quastenberg,  who  lives  in 
Hamburg,  and  who  has  not  replied  to  a  letter  that  was  sent 
to  her.  Neither  do  the  directories  give  the  name  of  Questen- 
berg in  any  of  the  cities  of  the  United  States  or  Canada, 
though  there  is  a  Charles  Quastenberg  living  in  New  York 
city,  who  likewise  has  not  answered  a  letter — and  no  infor- 
mation could  be  gleaned  from  either  of  these  sources.  So  it 
may  be  concluded  that  Questenberg,  the  original  form  of  our 
name,  is  everywhere  extinct  as  the  name  of  people. 

VI. 

It  has  already  been  shown  that  Tielniann  Questenberg's 
son  Bertold  had  four  sons,  of  whom  Henricus  Questenberg, 
the  eldest,  must  have  married  in  England  about  1467.  Hav- 


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that  was  not  nearly  so  numerous  in  England  in  the  by-gone 
centuries  as  it  is  to-day.  The  only  curious  matter  now 
recalled  about  London  grocers  is  that  they  were  first  called 
"  pepperers." 

It  is  probable  that  many  of  our  family  in  England  were  of 
the  yeomanry  class,  and  it  has  been  admitted  at  all  times  that 
"  the  yeomanry  of  England "  have  been  the  mainstay  and 
backbone  of  their  country.  The  yeomen  of  Kent  have  been 
an  especially  thrifty  and  progressive  class,  who  generally 
acquired  considerable  wealth,  so  that  they  have  given  rise  to 
a  little  folk-song  well  known  in  England,  to  wit : 

"  A  Knight  of  Gales,  a  Gentleman  of  Wales, 
And  a  Laird  of  the  North  Countree, — 
A  Yeoman  of  Kent  with  his  yearly  rent 
Will  buy  'em  out,  all  three." 

Now,  if  a  yeoman  of  Kent  with  the  rents  he  collects  in  a 
single  year  can  buy  out  a  Knight,  a  Gentleman,  and  a  Eaird, 
then  it  must  be  admitted  either  that  he  is  indeed  a  substantial 
man  or  else  that  the  other  three  are  remarkably  "poor 
critters." 

There  has  been  much  curious  speculation  as  to  the  origin 
and  true  meaning  of  the  word  yeoman.  The  Gentleman^ s 
Magazine  says  :  "  The  title  yeoman  is  of  military  origin,  as 
well  as  that  of  esquire  and  other  titles  of  honor.  Yeomen 
were  so  called  because,  besides  the  weapons  fit  for  close 
engagement,  they  fought  with  arrows  and  the  bow,  w^hich 
was  made  of  yew^  a  tree  that  hath  more  repelling  force  and 
elasticity  than  any  other.  After  the  Conquest  the  name  of 
yeomen,  as  to  their  original  office  in  war,  was  changed  to 
archers."  Eliezer  Edwards  adds  ( Words  ^  Facts  ^  and  Phrases)  : 
"  The  word  yeoman,  how^ever,  may  be  a  corruption  of  that  of 
gentleman.  G  and  Y  were  anciently  used  interchangeably. 
The  word  orentleman,  contracted  as  in  modern  times  to 
g^emman^  might  have  been  written  yemma?i^  from  which  the 
transition  to  the  modern  form  of  yeoman  would  have  been 
easy.  Verstegan  gives  the  Anglo-Saxon  word  for  gentleman 
as  gemsene,  which  favors  the  hypothesis." 


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Harrison,  the  Elizabethan  writer,  says  :  "  Yeoman  are  those 
which  by  our  laws  are  called  legales  homines^  free  men,  born 
English.  .  .  .  The  truth  is  that  the  word  is  derived  from  the 
Saxon  term  zeoman^  or  geoman^  which  signifieth  (as  I  have 
read)  a  settled  or  staid  man.  .  .  .  This  sort  of  people  have  a 
certain  preeminence,  and  more  estimation  than  the  labourers 
and  common  sort  of  artificers,  and  they  commonly  live 
wealthily,  keep  good  houses,  and  travel  to  get  riches.  They 
are  also  for  the  most  part  farmers  to  gentleman,  or  at  the 
leastwise  artificers  ;  and  with  grazing,  frequenting  of  markets, 
and  keeping  of  servants  (not  idle  servants,  as  gentlemen  do, 
but  such  as  get  both  their  own  and  part  of  their  master's 
living)  do  come  to  great  wealth,  insomuch  that  many  of  them 
are  able  and  do  buy  the  lands  of  unthrifty  gentlemen  ;  and 
often,  setting  their  sons  to  the  schools,  to  the  universities, 
and  to  the  inns  of  court,  or  otherwise  leaving  them  sufficient 
lands  whereupon  they  may  live  without  labour,  do  make  them 
by  those  means  to  become  gentlemen.  These  were  they  that 
in  times  past  made  all  France  afraid." 

Nothing  of  particular  interest  has  been  learned  concerning 
the  craft  of  ancient  English  tailors,  except  that  they  were 
generally  men  of  good  repute,  and  were  held  in  creditable 
esteem.  Many  of  them  gained  considerable  wealth,  and  there 
are  numerous  instances  of  tailors  attaining  high  rank  and 
official  position.  It  was  no  uncommon  thing  for  gentlemen, 
baronets,  and  even  noblemen  to  enter  their  younger  sons  as 
apprentices  to  tailors ;  and  the  present  Prince  of  Wales  is  a 
freeman  of  the  Merchant  Taylors  Company  of  London,  as  his 
father  was  before  him.  It  might  interest  the  reader  to  consult 
an  illustrated  authority  on  Costumes^  and  get  some  idea  of  the 
fearfully  and  wonderfully  constructed  garments  our  ancestor, 
Augustine  Questynbery,  "  tailour,"  was  making  in  the  good 
city  of  Canterbury  in  the  year  of  our  Eord  1490 — two  years 
before  Columbus  discovered  America. 

One  member  of  our  family  about  four  hundred  and  fifty 
years  ago  w^as  a  "  Glasyer,"  or  glazier,  which  seems  to  have 
been  anciently  a  calling  of  distinction.    The  Encyclopaedia 


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21 


Britaniiica,  in  the  article  on  Glass,  says  that  in  the  roll  of  the 
taxation  made  at  Colchester  in  1295  three  of  the  principal 
inhabitants  of  the  town  are  designated  as  glaziers. 

From  as  early  as  1543  several  of  our  famil}^  have  been 
designated  in  the  records  as  shoemakers  and  cordwainers. 
The  editor  has  been  surprised,  in  "reading  up,"  to  find  that 
so  extensive  and  so  exquisite  a  literature  has  grown  up  about 
"  the  gentle  craft  of  shoemaking,"  as  it  is  called.  One  of 
the  most  fascinating  books  in  the  English  language — even 
rivaling  Izaak  Walton's  Compleat  Angler — is  that  quaint  old 
work  The  Delightful,  Princely  and  Entertaining  History  of 
the  Gentle  Craft,  by  T.  Deloney,  published  in  1678.  Shoe- 
making  is  called  "  the  gentle  craft  "  because  in  all  ages  and 
countries  so  many  men  have  gone  from  the  cobbler's  bench 
to  the  very  highest  distinctions  in  every  walk  of  life.  As 
statesmen,  orators,  poets,  admirals,  generals,  ministers — in 
fact,  in  every  calling — shoemakers  have  attained  the  greatest 
eminence.  Time  out  of  mind  "  the  gentle  craft  "  has  been 
invested  with  an  air  of  romance.  This  honorable  title,  given 
to  no  other  occupation  than  that  of  shoemakers,  is  an  indica- 
tion of  the  high  esteem  in  which  the  craft  is  held. 

Saints  Crispin  and  Crispinian  who,  it  is  said,  were  born 
real  princes  of  the  blood,  are  the  patron  saints  of  the  shoe- 
makers, and  were  shoemakers  themselves.  They  traveled 
about  first  in  Gaul  and  then  in  Britain  preaching  to  the 
poor.  They  maintained  themselves  by  making  shoes,  which 
they  sold  to  those  who  were  able  to  pay.  For  the  very  poor 
they  made  shoes  without  money  and  without  price  ;  and  there 
is  a  legend  that  in  order  that  they  might  be  able  to  do  this 
St.  Crispin,  in  the  goodness  of  his  heart,  would  go  forth  at 
night  and  steal  the  leather  from  which  to  make  the  shoes. 
All  shoemakers  are  now^  called  "  Sons  of  Crispin,"  and  as 
St.  Crispin  was  a  real  prince,  the  old  saying  arose  that  "a 
shoemaker's  son  is  a  prince  born." 

A  cordwainer  was  a  high-class  shoemaker — a  worker  in 
Cordovan  leather,  or  the  fine  goat-skin  leather  from  Cordova, 
in  Spain.    Cordwainers  were  first  called  Cordo-<y(^-ners,  from 


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the  leather  in  which  they  worked  ;  but  this  term,  of  course, 
was  soon  "  anglicized  "  into  cordwainers.  Brent  gives  some 
rare  information  about  the  ancient  brethren  of  the  craft  of 
shoemakers  in  Canterbury.  He  says  (page  41) :  "  By  a  de- 
cree of  Burghmote,  A.  D.  1518,  it  was  enjoined  that  'every 
Brother  Shoemaker,  Cobbeler  or  Corner  that  will  sett  up  and 
occupy  as  a  maister  within  the  said  citie  and  libertie  of  the 
same,  shall  pay  to  the  wardens  of  the  seide  crafte,  or  ever  he 
sett  up  and  occupy,  3s,  4d,  to  the  maintenance  of  the  afore- 
saide  brotherende,  upon  payne  of  forfeiture  of  6  lbs.  of  wax.' 
The  fraternity  were  ordered  '  To  come  to  St.  Augustine  on 
the  Feast  of  the  Assumption,  and  of  Saints  Crispin  and 
Crispinus  and  there  make  their  solemn  offering  at  the  mass, 
upon  pain  of  forfeiture  of  2  lbs.  of  wax.'  Also,  'That  if 
any  of  the  seide  fraternitie,  dwelling  in  the  liberties  of  the 
seide  citie,  intende  to  be  married,  then  he  shall  give  knowl- 
edge of  hit  to  the  Wardeyns  of  the  seide  fraternyte  three 
dales  before  the  marriage,  and  then  the  said  wardens  to  give 
a  commandment  to  the  bedill  of  the  same  fraternitie  to  name 
the  brethren  in  due  time  to  go  with  him  from  his  dwelling 
place  unto  the  parishe  church,  where  matrimony  shall  be 
solemnized,  and  to  offer  with  him.'  " 

"  The  death  and  burial  of  a  brother  shoemaker  likewise 
caused  the  warning  of  the  fraternity.  '  Upon  the  next  ferial 
day  after  his  burial  there  was  enjoined  a  dirige  of  the  Austen 
Friars';  the  next  day  a  mass  of  requiem,  the  wardens  to  be 
present,  and  to  offer,  each  of  them,  id,  upon  pain  of  forfeiture 
of  two  pounds  of  wax.  The  same  ordinance  further  enacts 
'  That  the  bedill  shall  see  that  the  dedde  body  of  every  brother 
shoemaker  have  four  torches  to  bring  him  to  the  grave,  and 
four  tapers  to  be  lighted  and  borne  about  his  corpse,  or  herse, 
if  his  body  be  in  the  church  in  time  of  dirige,  or  mass,  except 
there  be  two  corpses  in  one  day  ;  when  the  seide  torches  and 
tapers  are  to  be  equally  divided  between  them,  upon  pain  of 
forfeiting  2  lbs.  of  wax,  to  be  levied  and  divided  in  form 
aforesaid.'  This  was  a  more  imposing  ceremonial  than  any 
poor  shoemaker  could  hope  for  at  the  present  day." 


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So  much  by  way  of  an  introductory  account  of  the  homes 
and  occupations  of  our  ancestors  in  the  old  world.  We  come 
now  to  the  consideration  of  such  scraps  and  fragments  of 
information  concerning  their  lives  and  deeds  as  it  has  been 
possible  to  glean  from  the  ancient  German  and  English 
records. 

"  Gather  we  from  the  shadowy  past 

The  straggling  beams  that  linger  yet, 
E'er  o'er  those  flickering  lights  are  east 
The  shroud  that  none  can  penetrate." 


24  MEMORIALS  OF  THE  QUISENBERRY  FAMILY 

THE  GERMAN  STEM  AND  ENGLISH  BRANCH. 


Inquire^  I  pray  thee,  of  the  former  age,  and  prepare  thyself  to  the  search 
of  their  fathers.'''' — ^JoB. 


I. 

No  connected  history  of  the  Quisenberry  family  in  Ger- 
many and  England  can  be  given,  although  a  good  deal  of  dis- 
connected but  very  interesting  data  concerning  it  has  been 
collected,  from  which,  perhaps,  a  connected  history  may  be 
approximately  established.  It  may  be  well  to  say  just  here 
that  the  authority  for  all  the  statements  in  this  narrative  is 
given  in  that  subdivision  of  this  book  called  The  Dociime7tts^ 
which  is  composed  of  copies  of  veritable  German  and  Eng- 
lish records,  together  with  letters  from  reliable  people  in 
England  and  Germany. 

The  connection  between  the  German  and  English  branches 
of  the  family  has  not,  as  yet,  been  thoroughly  established  by 
actual  records,  and  may  never  be  ;  but  the  presumptive  proofs 
are  so  very  strong  that  the  connection  as  stated  in  this  work 
may  be  taken  for  granted.  The  connection  between  the 
English  and  American  branches  of  the  family,  however,  has 
at  last  been  definitely  ascertained  through  an  English  legal 
record. 

The  family  originated  in  Germany,  where  the  primary  form 
of  the  name  was  Questenberg  ;  but  of  this  there  were  a  num- 
ber of  variants,  which  may  be  seen  by  a  glance  at  the  index 
of  this  work.  Nowhere  in  the  English  records  so  far  discov- 
ered is  the  name  spelled  Quisenberry  ;  the  nearest  approach 
to  it  being  Quissinborow.  The  earliest  English  form  of  the 
name  so  far  found  (1490)  is  Questynbery,  and  the  subsequent 
forms  are  very  numerous  indeed,  as  shown  in  the  index.  It 
is  a  notable  fact  that  all  English  names  have  undergone 
many  variations,  and  it  is  to  be  expected  that  so  odd  and  so 


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long  a  name  as  ours  should,  in  the  course  of  the  centuries,  have 
undergone  a  great  many.  One  of  the  English  novels  gives  a 
humorous  illustration  of  the  tendency  of  the  English  people 
to  change  and  corrupt  names.  The  instance  given  is  that  of 
a  young  nobleman  who  went  to  England  with  William  the 
Norman;  and,,  his  name  being  Beaurepaire,  the  natives  at 
once  began  to  call  him  "  Borriper."  One  of  his  descendants, 
centuries  afterwards,  erected  a  stately  manor  house  with  a 
fine  tower,  and  called  it  Beaurepaire  Chateau  ;  but  it  was 
known  through  all  the  country-side  as  "  Borriper's  Shot- 
Tower." 

While  no  German  or  Englishman,  so  far  as  is  known,  ever 
spelled  his  name  Qitisenberry  (a  form  of  the  name  which 
originated  in  America),  that  spelling  has  been  adopted,  after 
due  consideration,  as  the  most  likely  permanent  form  of  the 
name.  Questenberg,  the  original  form,  has  long  been  extinct 
in  Germany  ;  and  the  name  in  all  its  forms  has  apparently 
been  utterly  extinct  in  England  for  two  hundred  years  ;  and 
even  during  the  two  hundred  and  fifty  years  it  is  known  to 
have  existed  there  it  never  had  a  fixed  form,  even  in  any  one 
individual,  so  far  as  the  records  show.  In  America  the  name 
has  also  had  numerous  forms,  the  only  surviving  examples  of 
which  are  believed  to  be  Cushenberry,  Crusinberry,  Quesen- 
bury,  Ouesenberry,  and  Quisenberry,  and  the  last  named  un- 
doubtedly represents  nine-tenths  of  those  who  bear  the  vari- 
ous forms.  Cushenberry.  and  Crusinberry,  happily,  are  now 
almost  extinct ;  there  are  but  few  male  Quesenburys  ;  Ouesen- 
berry is  still  vigorous,  but  Quisenberry  flourishes  and  pros- 
pers as  a  green  bay  tree,  and  is  very  extensive.  Considering 
these  facts,  it  is  believed  to  be  best  to  adopt  Quisenberry  as 
the  generic  name  for  the  purposes  of  this  work,  since  it  now 
seems  inevitable  that  Quisenberry  is  the  form  of  the  name 
that  will  survive  long  after  all  the  other  forms  have  disap- 
peared. 


26  MEMORIALS  OI^  THE  QUISENBERRY  FAMILY 


11. 

In  1889  Walter  Rye,  Esquire,  of  lyondon,  an  expert  on 
English  names,  wrote  :  "  I  do  not  recognize  Quisenberry  as  an 
English  name  at  all.  ...  It  sounds  Dutch  to  me,  though 
I  may  be  wrong  ;  and  it  may  be  a  corruption  of  some  such  name 
as  Kissenbury,  but  that,  too,  I  do  not  know."  About  the 
same  time  several  eminent  English  authorities,  among  them^ 
Dr.  Hyde  Clark,  expressed  the  opinion-  that  the  name  is 
of  Dutch  or  German  origin,  and  investigations  have  shown 
that  they  were  right. 

Mr.  Rye's  reference  to  the  name  Kissenbury  is  interesting 
in  view  of  the  fact  that  in  1280  "  Brother  John  Peckham, 
Archbishop  of  Canterbury,"  instituted  Nicolas  de  Kyssingbir' 
as  vicar  of  Tilmanstone,  which  is  eight  miles  from  Canter- 
bury ;  and  in  1284  Nic.  de  Kyssingebyr',  presumably  the 
same  priest,  was  presented  Sundresse  vicarage,  also  in  Kent. 
As  bir^  and  hyr^  are  merely  abbreviations  of  birig  or  byrig — that 
is,  burg  or  bury — the  man's  name  was  clearly  Nicholas  de 
Kyssingbury,  which  comes  very  close  indeed  to  Quisenberry  ; 
and  as  he  had  these  two  livings  in  Kent,  which  seems  to  have 
been  the  home  of  nearly  all  the  English  Quisenberrys  of 
whom  record  has  been  found,  it  appeared  reasonable  that  de 
Kyssingbyr'  was  surely  an  early  form  of  that  name  which 
afterwards  became  Quisenberry.  Further  investigations,  how- 
ever, developed  the  fact  that  our  name,  as  an  English  one, 
must  certainly  have  originated  from  the  Hanse  merchants 
named  Questenberg,  of  Cologne,  Germany,  who  traded  in 
Ivondon  for  a  century,  beyond  doubt,  and  probably  did  so  for 
a  much  longer  period  than  that.  Prof.  W.  W.  Skeat,  of  Cam- 
bridge University,  the  most  eminent  philologist  in  Europe, 
whose  opinions  are  practically  supreme  in  such  matters  in 
England,  wrote  concerning  the  name  :  "  I  am  strongly  of  the 
opinion  that  the  derivation  of  Quisenberry  from  Questenbury, 
and  of  both  these  from  the  form  Questenberg,  is  extremely 
probable.  And,  on  the  other  hand,  it  is  not  likely  that  Kys- 
singbury is  the  same  name." 


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In  searching  the  English  records  a  lot  of  data  was  found 
concerning-  the  names  Kislingbury,  Kislingburie,  Kizling- 
berry,  Swinsburie,  Whittenbery,  Quinborough,  Ouinborrow, 
Queneburgh,  Quynborow,  Queensbeary,  Qneenborough, 
Queenbury,  Queneborough,  Quenlingborough,  and  Queens- 
berry,  and  while  none  of  these  are  probably  in  any  way  con- 
nected with  our  family,  the  data  is,  nevertheless,  given  in  The 
Documents.  The  name  Qneenborough  occurs  in  London  in 
1742  ;  Queenbury  in  1748 ;  Queneborough  in  1824,  Queens- 
berry  in  1833  ;  and  it  is  not  altogether  improbable  that  these 
are  modern  forms  or  variants  of  Questenbury  and  Quessenbury, 
which  were  the  most  usual  of  the  ancient  English  modes  of 
spelling  the  name. 

III. 

Questenberg,  as  the  cognomen  of  a  family,  without  doubt 
originated  from  a  peak  of  that  name  in  the  Harz  mountains. 
Berg  is  the  German  for  mountain,  and  Questen  is  undoubtedly 
derived  from  the  German  word  Quast^  which  means  a  crest, 
plume,  tuft,  tassell,  etc.  The  peaks  of  the  northern  range  of 
the  Harz  mountains,  being  exposed  to  the  moist,  cold  winds 
from  the  North  Sea,  are  nearly  all  bare  of  trees.  Therefore, 
one  of  these  peaks  which  fortuitously  might  chance  to  have 
some  trees  on  its  summit  would  almost  certainly  be  called 
Questenberg — the  crested  or  tufted  mountain.  And  that. 
Messieurs  and  Mesdames  Quisenberry  (or  how  else  you  may 
choose  to  spell  it)  is  the  actual  meaning  of  your  name — "  a 
crested  mountain."  Therefore  the  old  Irish  device — '^Mullach 
A-bu"--r"the  mountain  tops  forever" — is  a  very  suitable 
motto  for  our  family.  The  ancient  heralds  had  a  way  of 
punning  upon  names  when  they  granted  coats  of  arms,  and 
they  did  not  omit  to  do  so  when  they  granted  a  coat  to  the 
Cologne  family  of  Questenberg.  Their  crest  is  composed  of 
five  ostrich 

Questenberg  is  said  to  be  a  common  town  or  village  name 
in  Germany,  and  a  history  of  the  township  of  Questenberg, 


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in  the  Harz,  has  been  published.  This  village,  which  is  in 
Saxony,  no  doubt  took  its  name  from  the  mountain  called 
Questenberg  ;  and  the  family  of  Questenberg  may  have  taken 
its  name  from  either  the  village  or  the  mountain. 

The  first  individual  of  the  name  of  whom  any  record  has 
been  found  was  Tielmann  Questenberg ;  and  Tielmann  is 
spelled  in  many  ways  in  the  various  records,  sometimes  even 
appearing  as  Tidem.  He  was  born  in  Bortfelde  (now 
Bodenfeld)  in  Brunswick,  where  nearly  all  the  people  are  of 
the  Saxon  race.  His  birth  was  certainly  not  later  than  1380, 
for  he  was  a  Hanse  merchant  in  London  in  141 8.  He  appears 
to  have  lived  for  a  time  in  Lubeck,  and  in  1424  he  applied 
for  citizenship  in  Cologne  and  was  accepted,  and  his  citizen- 
ship was  confirmed  in  1427,  when  he  paid  twelve  Rhenish 
florins  for  it.  He  died  in  1446  ;  so  assuming  that  he  was 
born  no  earlier  than  1380,  he  was  sixty-six  years  old  when 
he  died.  It  is  very  probable  that  he  was  even  older  than 
that.  He  married  Sybilla.  von  Suchteln,  but  it  is  not  known 
how  many  children  they  had.  Bertold,  or  Bertram  (Bertrand) 
Questenberg  who  is  mentioned  in  the  records  from  1442  to 
1481  as  a  cloth  merchant  in  London,  and  as  a  member  of  the 

Cologne  Senate,  who  married  Margareth  in  1445,  was 

certainly  Tielmann's  son.  There  are  many  proofs  that 
Tielmann  Questenberg  was  the  common  ancestor  of  all  the 
people  of  his  name  who  lived  in  Cologne  after  his  death  until 
about  1797,  when  that  branch  of  the  family  became  extinct. 
His  home  in  Cologne,  situated  on  the  Steinweg,  was  called 
"  Suchteln."  His  son  Bertold,  in  1445,  the  year  of  his  mar- 
riage, bought  an  estate  in  or  near  Cologne  called  ^^Zu  der 
Lillien  auf  der  Bruggen  "  (The  Lily  by  the  Bridge),  and  this 
house  property  is  mentioned  in  wills,  where  it  is  transferred 
from  one  member  of  the  family  to  another,  down  to  as  late 
as  1646,  when  it  is  described  in  the  will  of  the  noble  Lord 
Constantine  Ferdinand  von  Questenberg  as  "  old,  dilapidated, 
and  decayed."    And  small  wonder,  after  two  hundred  years  ! 

Tielmann  Questenberg  appears  to  have  had  a  brother  named 
Bertold,  who  is  mentioned  in  the  records  in  1432,  but  it  does 


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not  appear  that  he  was  ever  a  citizen  of  Cologne.  Nor  does 
it  appear  positively  that  Tielmann  had  any  other  children 
besides  his  son  Bertold,  whose  children  were — i.  Henricns,"^^ 

who  married    Catherine   ,  who  apparently  was  an 

Englishwoman,  and  it  therefore  appears  most  probable  that 
this  Henricus  (or  Heinrich,  or  Henry)  Onestenberg  settled 
permanently  in  England,  and  was  the  fonnder  of  the  English 
branch  of  the  family  ;  2.  John,  who  never  married  ;  3.  Ber- 
told, who  married  [Margherita  von  Blitterswich  in  147 1,  and 
was  the  founder  of  that  line  of  the  family  which  was  ennobled  ; 
and,  4.  Goddert,  who  married  Christina  Schlasgin. 

Henricus  Questenberg,  the  eldest  son,  was  disinherited  for 
marrying  an  Englishwoman  in  violation  of  the  Hanse  rules. 
John,  the  second  son,  did  not  marry  ;  and  so  the  succession 
descended  through  the  third  son,  Bertold.  But  his  line  has 
long  been  extinct,  and  so  have  the  lines  of  all  his  brothers, 
except  only  that  of  Henricus,  the  eldest  son  ;  and  we,  of 
America,  the  descendants  of  Henricus,  are  the  legal  heirs  to 
the  family  coat  of  arms,  and  have  every  right  to  claim  it  as 
our  own,  should  we  be  so  minded. 

After  Tielmann  and  Bertold  there  were  several  others  of  the 
Ouestenbergs,  of  Cologne,  who  were  merchants  of  the 
Hanseatic  League  at  the  Cologne  Guild  in  London,  namely  : 
Conrad  Questenberch,  in  1447,  who  may  have  been  a  son  of 
Tielmann's  ;  Christian  Questenberg,  in  1468,  who  may  have 
been  Tielmann's  son,  or  grandson ;  Kurt  Questenberg  in 
1487  ;  and  in  1494  Johann  Questenberg,  who  was  for  many 
years  a  member  of  the  Cologne  Senate. 

Henricus  Questenberg  matriculated  in  the  L^niversity  of 
Cologne  in  1462,  and  as  a  university  course  is  usually  four 
years,  he  doubtless  graduated  in  1466  and  was  then  taken 
immediately  to  London  to  be  trained  in  the  Hanse  business 
conducted  by  his  father,  to  which,  as  the  eldest  son,  he  was  to 
succeed.  It  seems  probable  that  he  at  once  fell  in  love  with 
and  married  an  English  girl,  probably  about  1467. 

*  Henricus  is  the  Litin  form  of  the  name  which  iu.  German  is  Heinrich,  and 
iu  English  is  Henry. 


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There  may  have  been  others,  but  these  are  all  who  are 
shown  by  the  records  to  have  been  Cologne  merchants  in 
London  down  to  1515,  the  date  to  which  the  miscellaneous 
records  received  from  Cologne  extend.  (See  The  Documents.) 
As  the  Hanseatic  merchants  continued  to  do  business  in  Lon- 
don until  1 599,  when  they  were  expelled  by  royal  edict,  it  is 
quite  likely  there  were  Questenbergs  in  business  there  until 
that  time.  The  records  seem  to  show  that  they  were  cloth 
merchants,  and  there  is  abundant  evidence  that  they  became 
very  wealthy.  Indeed,  as  early  as  141 8  Tielmann  Questen- 
berg  must  have  had  quite  a  respectable  fortune,  else  he  could 
not  have  engaged  in  the  Hanse  trade  at  all,  and  it  may  be 
inferred  that  his  ancestors  had  been  merchants  of  the  Hanse- 
atic League  perhaps  for  centuries  before  his  birth  ;  but,  of 
course,  there  are  now  no  records  extant  of  merely  commer- 
cial affairs  in  those  very  ancient  times. 

In  The  Documents  may  be  found  some  interesting  data 
about  the  Hanse  merchants  in  London,  who  invariably 
retained  their  citizenship  in  Cologne,  or  where  else  they 
might  have  come  from,  though  numbers  of  them  were  in 
London,  off  and  on,  for  many  years.  Their  families  remained 
at  home,  except  that  very  often  their  sons  were  taken  to  Lon- 
don in  order  that  they  might  be  trained  to  succeed  their 
fathers  in  business.  These  Hanse  merchants  had  many 
curious  customs.  They  totally  excluded  women  from  the 
quarter  in  which  they  lived  as  a  communal  colony,  and  no 
man  among  them  was  permitted  to  stay  away  from  these 
quarters  for  even  a  single  night.  All  this  was  on  account  of 
guarding  their  trade  secrets  which  the  English  merchants 
were  perpetually  striving  to  learn.  The  cautious  Hanse 
merchants,  fearful  of  the  feminine  arts  of  cajolery,  and  bear- 
ing in  mind  the  case  of  Samson  and  Delilah,  considered  the 
only  safe  course  to  be  that  of  cutting  themselves  off  entirely 
from  female  society  or  association  of  whatever  description. 
Whenever  a  member  of  the  Hanse  married  an  Englishwoman 
he  was  expelled,  and  forfeited  all  his  rights  in  the  League. 
But  love  laughs  at  Hanse  laws,  as  well  as  at  locksmiths,  and 


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ing  done  this  he  undoubtedly  suffered  the  inevitable  conse- 
quences—loss of  fortune  as  well  as  of  his  right  to  be  a  Hanse 
merchant ;  and  as  he  would,  on  account  of  his  marriage  in 
violation  of  the  Hanse  rules,  be  in  disgrace  in  Cologne  should  J 
he  return  to  that  place,  there  was  nothing  left  for  him  to  do 
except  to  remain  in  England  and  become  an  Englishman.  ^ 
This  he  evidently  did  (for  there  is  no  subsequent  mention  of 
him  in  the  Cologne  records,  and  he  the  eldest  son  of  a  wealthy 
and  powerful  family) ;  and  from  him  descended  the  English  . 
family  of  Questenbury.  It  is  probable  that  he  married  in 
Canterbury  and  settled  there,  as  the  first  instance  of  the  name 
as  that  of  an  Englishman  is  found  in  the  old  cathedral  city, 
when,  in  1490,  "  Augustine  Questyngbury,  tailour,"  paid  six- 
teen pence  for  the  privilege  of  being  allowed  to  exercise  his 
trade  in  the  ward  of  Westgate.  Augustine's  father,  Henricus 
(or  Heinrich)  Questenberg,  probably  took  up  the  business  of 
tailoring  when,  about  1467,  he  married  and  lost  his  status  as 
a  merchant  of  the  London  Hanse,  for  one  who  had  been  a 
cloth  merchant,  on  being  obliged  to  labor  with  his  hands, 
would  probably  turn  his  attention  to  tailoring.  Or,  perhaps, 
still  having  some  capital,  Heinrich  Questenberg  may  have  set 
up  as  a  cloth  merchant  in  a  limited  way,  or  as  a  merchant 
tailor  on  his  own  account ;  and  in  that  event  his  sons  would 
most  likely  have  been  taught  "  all  the  secret  arts  and  mys- 
teries "  of  the  tailor's  craft. 

If  Heinrich  Questenberg  married  an  Englishwoman  in  1467, 
and  had  a  son  born  that  year  or  in  1468,  whom  he  named 
Augustine,  then  in  1490  that  Augustine  Questenberg  would 
have  been  twenty-two  or  twenty-three  years  of  age,  and  out 
of  his  indentures  and  ready  to  begin  business  on  his  own 
account.  The  municipal  records  of  Canterbury  show,  as  a 
matter  of  fact,  that  in  1490  one  Augustine  Questyngbury 
begin  business  for  himself  as  a  "  tailour  "  in  that  year,  and 
as  that  was  his  first  appearance  on  the  records,  he  was  then 
most  likely  not  long  out  of  his  indentures  as  an  apprentice, 
and  consequently  twenty-one  years  of  age  or  thereabouts. 
Where  the  records  fit  so  closely  to  what  the  facts  must  have 
been,  we  cannot  choose  but  accept  the  natural  inferences. 


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MKMORIAI.S  OF  THE  QUISENBERRY  FAMILY 


In  England  berg  or  burg  would  always  be  changed  without 
delay  into  borough  or  btiry^  and  that  was  what  occurred  in 
this  case.  The  German  name  Questenberg  soon  became  Ques- 
tenbery,  Questenbury,  etc.,  in  England,  and  as  the  t  was 
silent,  the  name,  as  a  matter  of  course,  was  pronounced  Qiies- 
enbitry.  The  English  records  show  that  where  members  of 
the  family  signed  the  name  themselves  they  wrote  it  Questen- 
bury or  Questenbery,  but  wh  en  others  wrote  it  they  often  did 
so  without  the  t.    This  shows  that  the  t  was  silent. 

The  records  disclose  that  Augustine  Questynbury  continued 
to  pay  his  yearly  license  as  a  tailor  in  Canterbury  from.  1490 
until  1 5 10 — a  period  of  twenty  years — when  he  disappears 
from  the  books,  and  the  inference  is  that  he  died  in  1510  or 
151 1.  The  municipial  records  of  the  city  were  of  course 
written  by  the  Town  Clerk,  and  during  these  twenty  years 
our  ancestor's  name  appeared  in  those  writings  under  the 
forms  of  Questyngborough,  Questynbery,  Questynbury,  Ques- 
tynborow,  and  Questyngbury.  In  1504  it  appears  as  Austyn 
Questyngbury.  It  would  be  interesting  to  know  how  he 
spelled  the  name  himself. 

How  many  children  Augustine  Questynbury  had  it  is  now 
impossible  to  know.  John  Questenbury,  who  was  apprenticed 
to  William  Warlowe  (trade  not  named)  in  1507,  was  doubtless 
his  son ;  and  so  must  have  been  Thomas  Questynbery, 
"Glasyer,"  who  set  up  for  himself  in  1522.  If  so,  he  could 
not  have  been  born  later  than  1501,  as  he  must  have  been  of 
legal  age  in  1522.  Thomas  Questynbery  continued  to  pay  an 
annual  license  of  twelve  pence  or  sixteen  pence  as  a  glazier 
in  Canterbury  until  1525,  after  which  there  is  no  further 
mention  of  him,  and  it  appears  probable  that  he  died  in  1525, 
and  that  perhaps  he  was  married  and  left  a  child  or  two,  but 
whether  he  did  or  not  cannot  now  be  known.  He  could  not 
have  been  the  father  of  Henry  Questynbery  who  set  up  as  a 
shoemaker  in  Canterbury  in  1538,  when  he  (Henry)  must 
necessarily  have  been  at  least  twenty-one  years  of  age  and 
may  have  been  more.  Therefore,  Henry  may  have  been  the 
son  of  John  Questenbury,  who  in  1507  was  apprenticed  to 


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William  Warlowe  ;  and  if  apprenticed  at  the  age  of  fourteen 
years,  as  was  usual,  he  was  born  in  1493. 

Henry  Questenbury,  shoemaker  (born  about  15 17,  as  he 
must  have  been  twenty-one  years  old  when  he  began  business 
in  1538),  paid  three  shillings  and  four  pence  yearly  as  an 
intrante  from  1538  to  1543,  in  which  year  he  became  a  free- 
man of  the  city  of  Canterbury — a  fact  which  goes  to  show 
that  he  was  then  a  man  of  substance.  For  being  made  a 
freeman  he  paid  thirteen  shillings  and  four  pence,  a  consider- 
able sum  at  that  time.  A  freeman  is  one  who  enjoys  or  is 
entitled  to  citizenship,  franchise,  or  other  peculiar  privileges — 
as  a  freeman  of  a  city  or  State.  In  the  olden  time  the  position 
of  such  a  freeman  gave  the  right  to  trade  in  the  place.  In  the 
year  1543  freemen,  or  voters,  were  not  very  numerous  in 
Canterbury.  Brent's  Ca7iterbiiry  in  the  Olden  Time  says  : 
"  In  Canterbury  the  elective  franchise  was  considered  to 
have  always  been  vested  in  the  freemen.  The  freemen 
obtained  their  privileges  either  by  birth,  as  sons  of  freemen 
born  in  the  city,  by  apprenticeship,  or  by  marriage  with  a 
freeman's  daughter." 

It  can  never  be  known  how  many  children  Henry  Questen- 
bury, of  Canterbury,  had.  The  records  prove  that  he  had  at 
least  one  son,  Marcus,  who  was  born  after  his  father  had  been 
admitted  a  freeman  of  Canterbury  in  1543,  and  it  is  believed 
that  Henry  Questenbery,  of  Leeds,  Kent,  was  also  a  son  of 
Henry,  of  Canterbury,  as  there  is  no  other  way  of  accounting 
for  him. 

Marcus  Questenbury  may  have  been  born  in  the  latter  part 
of  1543,  and  certainly  was  born  not  later  than  1543,  for  we 
find  that  in  1551  Marks  Questenborow  was  enrolled  as  the 
apprentice  of  Peter  London,  who  apparently  was  a  shoemaker  ; 
for  in  1564  "Marks'  Qwestenbery,"  necessarily  being  not  less 
than  twenty-one  years  old,  was  admitted  and  sworn  to  the 
liberties  of  the  city  of  Canterbury,  "  for  ye  whitche  he  paid 
not,  be  caws  he  was  ye  son  of  Harry  Qwestenbery,  who  was  a 
ffreeman  beffore  ye  birth  of  ye  said  Mks."  Nothing  is  known 
about  his  children,  though  Amye  Questenbury,  who  was 


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baptized  at  All  Saints'  Church,  Canterbury,  on  June  25,  1576, 
was  doubtless  his  daughter.  The  registers  of  the  same  church 
show  that  on  May  26,  1 597,  "  Marck  Queshenbury  was 
buryed."  In  Virginia,  Kentucky,  and  other  places,  a  very 
usual  pronunciation  of  Quisenberry  is  "  Cushenberry,"  and 
it  has  long  been  a  subject  for  wonder  how  such  a  pronuncia- 
tion could  have  come  about.  Yet  the  entry  of  the  burial  of 
Marck  Queshenbury,  on  the  registers  of  All  Saints'  Church, 
Canterbury,  shows  clearly  that  there  was  a  tendency  toward 
such  a  pronunciation  as  "  Cushenberry  "  as  early  as  1597 — 
more  than  three  hundred  years  ago. 

Edward  Bowles,  of  Dover,  and  Ann  Quessenburrie  were 
married  at  All  Saints',  Canterbury,  in  1606.  Anne  Questen- 
bury,  widdowe,"  was  buried  at  All  Saints'  Church  in  1624, 
and  most  likely  she  was  the  widow  of  Marcus.  After  that 
there  is  no  other  mention  of  the  name  Questenbury,  in  any 
form,  in  Canterbury,  until  1663,  and  it  is  probable  that  the 
name  was  extinct  in  that  city  during  most  of  the  interim. 

VII. 

We  come  now  to  Henry  Questenbery,  of  the  village  of 
Leeds,  Kent,  from  whom  the  Ouisenberrys  of  America  are 
descended,  as  is  established  by  evidence  that  is  practically 
positive. 

Leeds  is  an  ancient  village  in  the  valley  of  the  Medway, 
situated  four  or  five  miles  from  Maidstone,  twenty  miles  from 
Canterbury,  and  about  the  same  distance  from  Rochester  and 
Chatham.  It  is  about  forty  miles  from,  London.  "St. 
Nicholas  "  is  the  name  of  the  parish  church — the  church  in 
which  our  lineal  ancestors  worshipped  certainly  as  early  as 

1563- 

By  an  order  of  Thomas  Cromwell  in  1538,  the  vicars  and 
rectors  of  English  parishes  were  directed  to  keep  registers,  in 
which  were  to  be  entered  all  the  baptisms,  marriages,  and 
burials  that  might  occur  in  the  several  parishes.  The  parish 
registers  ought  to  be  complete  from  that  date,  but  are  not. 


TWO   PAGES  OF  THE   REGISTERS  OF  LEEDS  PARISH. 

[SHOWING  THE  NAME  OF  QUESSENBURY  (MARKED  +.)] 


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The  order  was  not  strictly  enforced  until  1559.  The  registers 
of  Leeds  parish  are  practically  complete  from  1557.  The 
accompanying  fac  similes  of  two  pages  of  the  registers  of 
lyceds  parish  showing  entries  of  the  baptism  of  Millicent 
Quessenberry  in  1563,  and  of  Johannes  Ouessenbury  in  1581, 
should  be  very  interesting  to  the  American  branch  of  the 
family.  It  will  be  observed  that  one  of  the  pages  is  signed 
at  the  bottom  :  per  me  henricunt  tilden  curat'."  Rev.  J. 
Cave-Browne,  in  a  little  history  of  the  parish,  speaks  of  the 
good  caligraphy  of  Rev.  Henry  Tilden,  as  shown  by  these 
registers.  Perhaps  Mr.  Cave-Browne  could  see  beauty  in  that 
writing,  but  it  appears  hardly  as  legible  as  that  of  Hary 
Questenbery,  a  fac  simile  of  w^hose  signature  as  "  churche 
warden  "  of  the  parish  in  1605  is  reproduced  herewith. 


It  is  interesting  to  know  how  he  spelled  his  own  name. 
The  difference  between  Questenbery  and  Questenberg  is  very 
slight  indeed,  and  it  is  highly  probable  that  down  to  as  late 
as  1605,  and  perhaps  later,  all  the  members  of  the  family 
wrote  their  name  Questenbery.  The  "churche  w^arden  " 
certainly  wrote  as  good  a  "  hand  "  as  the  "  curat'." 

This  Henry  Questenbery,  church  warden,  was  the  head  of 
the  family  in  Leeds.  His  first  child,  "  Millicent,"  was  born 
October  17,  1563,  when  he  could  hardly  have  been  less  than 
twenty-two  years  of  age  ;  so  it  may  be  assumed  that  he  could 
not  have  been  born  later  than  1541.    He  married  Mildred 

 ,  who  died  in  Leeds  in  1604.    Besides  Milicent  (who 

died  in  1577)  there  were  seven  other  children,  all  sons,  who 
appear  on  the  register  of  baptisms  as  follows  :  Johannes 
Quessenberi,  Nov.  14,  1565  ;  Christoffer  Quessenberry,  Jan. 
28,  1568 ;  John  Quessonberry,  Aug.  20,  1570 ;  George 
Quessenberry,  April  26,  1573;  Richard  Quessonberry,  Feb. 
19,  1577;  Jacobus  Quessonberry,  Nov.  15,  1578;  Johannes 


40  MEMORIALS  OE  THE  QUISENBERRY  EAMII^Y 

Quesseiiberry,  Sept.  3,  1581.  The  Dociune^tts  also  contain  a 
list  of  most  of  these  entries,  taken  from  the  Bishop's  transcript 
at  Canterbury  ;  and  in  these  transcripts  Millicent  Quessen- 
berry,  as  she  is  put  down  on  the  original  register,  appears  as 
"  Milisant  Vestonbery,  daughter  of  Henry  Vestonbery." 
Vestonbery  is  a  very  strange  variant  of  our  name,  yet,  no 
doubt,  there  are  people  in  the  world  who  would  pronounce  it 
"  Cushenberry." 

It  seems  that  several  centuries  ago  it  was  quite  customary 
for  people  to  give  a  favorite  name  to  three  or  four  of  their 
children,  in  order  to  be  the  more  sure  of  perpetuating  it,  and 
this  may  explain  why  Henry  Ouestenbery  named  three  of 
his  sons  John.  No  doubt  Henry,  of  Leeds,  was  the  grandson 
of  John,  of  Canterbury,  as  has  already  been  surmised,  and  he 
may  have  been  very  fond  of  his  grandfather,  and,  therefore, 
was  impelled  to  take  extraordinary  pains  to  honor  him  by 
perpetuating  his  name.  Johannes  is  merely  the  Latin  form 
of  John,  as  Jacobus  is  of  James,  and  the  old-time  church  reg- 
isters of  England  were  kept,  more  or  less,  in  Latin. 

None  of  Henry  Questenbery's  sons  were  married  in  Leeds 
parish,  and  none  of  them  died  there,  and  after  1606  the 
name  never  appears  upon  the  registers  of  that  parish  again, 
and  it  does  not  appear  at  all  upon  the  registers  of  any  of 
the  adjacent  or  neighboring  parishes,  all  of  which  have  been 
examined.  It  has  been  a  puzzling  question  as  to  what  became 
of  these  sons,  as  no  subsequent  record  could  be  found  of  any 
but  two  of  them — James  and  one  of  the  Johns.  The  other 
five  have  disappeared  completely,  leaving  no  trace  or  record 
that  has  yet  been  found,  though  diligent  search  has  been 
made. 

Henry  Questenbery,  of  Leeds,  must  have  been  more  than 
ordinarily  well  off  in  this  world's  goods,  for  his  times.  It  is 
known  that  he  left  to  his  youngest  son,  James,  several  houses 
and  messuages  in  Leeds  parish,  and  to  do  as  well  by  the 
other  six  sons  he  must  have  been  rather  a  wealthy  man.  The 
eldest  son,  who  was  probably  John  Questenbery,  of  Roches- 
ter, no  doubt  received  more  than  all  the  other  sons  together. 


IN  GERMANY,  ENGLAND  AND  AMERICA.  4I 

In  1663,  in  the  Chancery  cause  of  Questenbury  vs.  Catlett 
(see  The  Documents)^  reference  is  made  to  a  will  of  eleven 
sheets,  which  was  then  in  evidence,  and  which,  in  the  nature 
of  the  case,  could  have  been  the  will  of  no  other  than  Henry 
Questenbery,  of  Leeds.  This  will,  which  was  then  in  the 
Registrar's  Office  for  the  Diocese  of  Rochester,  seems  now  to 
be  utterly  lost.  But  a  will  that  required  eleven  sheets  must 
have  bequeathed  a  considerable  amount  of  property,  for  in 
1645  "  Henry  Questenbury,  of  Maidstone,  Gentleman,"  grand- 
son of  Henry  Questenbery,  of  Leeds,  disposed  of  quite  a  little 
fortune  in  a  will  of  two  sheets,  and  it  was  not  a  short  will 
either. 

Henry  Questenbery,  of  Leeds,  probably  died  in  Rochester 
after  1606,  and  it  seems  that  one  of  his  sons  named  John  died 
in  that  city  before  1614,  and  they  apparently  lived  in  the  par- 
ish of  St.  Nicholas,  the  existing  registers  of  which  go  back 
no  further  than  1624,  the  earlier  ones  having  been  lost,  so  the 
exact  dates  of  the  death  of  Henry  Questenbery,  as  well  as  that 
of  his  son  John,  the  father  of  Henry  Questenbury  of  Maid- 
stone, are  now  beyond  recovery. 

VHI. 

It  is  learned  from  the  registers  of  Leeds  parish  that  "Johan- 
nes Quessenberi  filius  Henrici  "  (John  Questenbery,  son  of 
Henry)  was  baptized  Nov.  14,  1565,  and  the  baptism  of  chil- 
dren usually  occurred  within  a  few  days  after  their  birth.  A 
close  roll  dated  July  2,  1614,  mentions  "  Henry  Questenburie, 
son  of  John  Questenburie,  late  of  the  city  of  Rochester  in 
the  said  County  of  Kent."  This  was  no  doubt  the  John,  son 
of  Henry,  who  was  born  in  Leeds  in  1565.  As  he  died  before 
July  2,  1 614,  he  did  not  attain  an  age  of  more  than  forty- 
nine  years.  His  widow,  Jane,  married  Robert  Johnson,  of 
Southfleete,  gentleman,  and  John  Questenbury  doubtless  also 
wrote  himself  gentleman.  He  was  the  eldest  son,  and  as 
such  would  have  succeeded  to  most  of  his  father's  property  ; 
and  it  appears  that  his  widow  had  several  valuable  messuages 


42  MEMORIALS  OF  THE  OUISENBERRY  FAMILY 


in  Rochester.  It  is  known  that  this  John  Questenbnry  had 
at  least  two  children — Henry  and  Anne.  On  Dec.  5,  1625, 
license  was  issned  in  London  for  the  marriage  of  Manrice 
Eady,  of  St.  Dnnstan's  West,  gentleman,  and  this  Anne 
Qnestenbnry,  who  lived  in  the  same  parish,  and  was  then 
twenty-four  years  old,  and  was  therefore  born  in  1601. 

Henry  Questenbnry,  gentleman,  is  first  mentioned  in  1614, 
in  a  legal  document,  and  it  appears  he  was  not  then  of  age,  as 
some  property  bestowed  by  that  document  was  "paid  (for)  by 
the  friends  of  the  said  Henry  Questenburie,"  and  therefore  he 
could  not  have  been  born  earlier  than  1593,  and  may  have 
been  born  later.  He  was  far  and  away  the  most  prominent 
man  of  his  name  who  ever  lived  in  England,  so  far  as  the 
records  as  yet  discovered  disclose.  The  Questenbergs  of 
Cologne  had  a  coat  of  arms,  and  unless  they  claimed  this  the 
Questenberys  of  England  never  had  any  that  was  granted  or 
recorded  by  the  Heralds'  College.  Yet  Henry  Questenbnry, 
of  Maidstone,  terming  himself  and  being  termed  by  others, 
"  Gentleman,"  in  legal  documents  and  elsewhere,  must  neces- 
sarily have  borne  a  coat  of  arms.  He  affixed  to  his  will  (dated 
in  1645)  heraldic  seal,  which  signifies  that  he  did  have 
a  coat  of  arms  that  was  in  no  particular  similar  to  that  which 
had  been  granted  his  kinsmen  in  Cologne  by  the  Heralds 
of  the  Holy  Roman  Empire.  A  fac  simile  of  the  seal  used 
by  him  is  reproduced  on  the  title  page.  Technically  described 
it  is  "  two  wings  in  lure  "  (having  some  reference  to  Falconry) 
with  the  letters  /.  R,  What  these  initials  mean  is  not  known, 
but  it  was  suggested  by  the  custodian  of  wills  at  Somerset 
House,  Eondon,  that  possibly  they  may  stand  for  Jacobus 
Rex  (King  James  I)  who  reigned  from  1603  to  1625,  ^^^^  they 
may  signify  that  he  had  bestowed  a  grant  of  arms  upon  Henry 
Questenbnry  for  some  special  service.    Holden's  Primer  of 


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43 


Heraldry  says  that  "arms  were  assumed  at  will,  or  were 
granted  by  greater  nobles  to  crusaders  or  others.  .  .  .  Any 
individual  has  the  right  to  assume  and  bear  a  coat  of  arms, 
and  in  England  there  is  no  legal  obstacle  to  this,  but  the  arms 
of  a  citizen  are  not  recognized  unless  they  are  registered  at  the 
Heralds'  College/' 

Henry  Ouestenbury,  gentleman,  was  evidently  a  man  of 
considerable  wealth,  and  he  bought  and  owned  lands  in  various 
parts  of  the  valley  of  the  ]\Iedway  and  elsewhere  in  Kent. 
In  1 6 14,  while  he  was  still  a  minor,  Peter  Ellis,  of  Southfleete, 
Kent,  gentleman,  conveyed  to  him  "  that  messuage  or  tene- 
ment called  Rowsden,  containino;-  fortv-and-two  acres,  Ivino; 
and  being  in  ]\Iarden,  in  Kent,  .  .  .  and  also  that  mes- 
suage in  Wick  street,  in  ^Maidstone,  and  all  the  other  messuages, 
lands,  etc.,  of  Peter  Ellis  situate  within  the  County  of  Kent.'' 
]\Iarden  is  near  ^laidstone.  In  1626  he  bought  of  Andrew 
Evans  and  Walter  Harflete,  gentleman,  the  manor  of  Deane 
Place,  with  the  appurtenances,  consisting  of  one  hundred  and 
ninety  acres  l}'ing  and  being  in  Meopham  and  Euddesdown,  in 
Kent.  In  1627  Questenbery  was  living  at  Hoo,  a  suburb 
of  Rochester.  In  1628  he  is  described  as  "  Henry  Ouesten- 
bury, of  Rochester,  gentleman."  In  1638  he  was  living  in 
Maidstone.  In  1641  he  bought  of  Peter  Ellis  "  two  messuages 
and  two  gardens,  with  the  appurtenances,"  in  Maidstone.  In 
1643  bought  an  annuity  or  yearly  rent  charge  on  a  landed 
property  in  Leacham,  Kent. 

He  made  a  will  which  is  dated  February  19,  1645,  ^"^'^s 
proved  March  14  of  the  same  year,  so  he  died  between  those 
dates.  A  fac  simile  of  his  signature  to  the  will  is  reproduced 
herein.  He  seems  to  have  been  rather  a  remarkable  man.  It 
is  probable  that  he  had  a  university  education,  and  in  his  will 
he  refers  to  his  books  in  a  way  that  indicates  that  they  mav 
have  been  valuable  as  well  as  numerous.  He  also  refers  to 
other  properties  than  those  above-mentioned,  and  principallv 
to  "  all  that  messuage  and  landes  with  the  appurtenances 
scituate  and  being  in  the  parish  of  St.  Nicholas  Atwoode  in 
the  Isle  of  Thanett  in  the  said  county  of  Kent,  which  I  late 


44  MEMORIALS  OF  THE  QUISENBERRY  EAMIEY 


purchased  of  Thomas  Parramore,*  gentleman."  He  names  in 
the  will  his  wife  Sara,  and  daughters  Sara  and  Mary,  but 
leaves  nearly  all  his  property  to  a  child  then  unborn,  with 
which  his  wife  was  "  Enseint,"  in  case  it  should  be  a  male 
•child,  and  names  as  his  executors  his  brother-in-law,  Mr. 
Maurice  Kady,  and  his  "  Lovinge  cosine,  Mr.  Thomas  Turner." 
There  was  a  Thomas  Turner,  born  1591,  who  was  Dean  of 
Rochester  from  1641  to  1643,  when  he  became  Dean  of  Can- 
terbury. The  witnesses  to  the  will  were"  Richard  Heade,  who 
was  afterwards  made  a  Baronet,  and  Henry  Wriothesley,  of  a 
family  very  distinguished  in  Kent  and  elsewhere. 

The  will  states  that  Henry  Questenbury  was  married  at 
Tovell,  in  the  parish  of  Maidstone,  but  there  is  no  entry  of 
his  marriage  in  the  registers  of  that  parish,  so  it  must  have 
occurred  elsewhere.  It  is  believed  that  his  wife's  maiden 
name  was  Ellis,  but  this  is  only  conjecture.  Nothing  more 
is  known  of  his  daughter  Sara  than  is  stated  in  the  will,  but 
on  January  22,  1663,  license  was  issued  for  the  marriage  of 
his  daughter  Mary,  then  living  with  her  mother  in  Rochester, 
to  Nicholas  Stonehouse,t  of  Chatham,  in  Kent,  gentleman, 


*  A  Thomas  Parramore  was  Vicar  of  Leeds,  Kent,  about  that  time.  The 
properties  owned  by  the  Parramore  family  in  the  parish  of  St.  Nicholas-at- 
Wade,  Isle  of  Thanet,  Kent,  are  given  by  Hasted  as :  (1)  Bartlett's,  alias 
Thoneton,  bought  by  Thomas  Parramore  in  1578.  (2)  St.  Nicholas  Court 
Manor,  and  (3)  St.  Nicholas  Court  Farm,  both  owned  by  Thomas  Parramore, 
and  by  his  will  descended  to  his  son  Thomas  Parramore  in  1636.  (One  or  both 
of  these  must  have  been  the  property  bought  by  Henry  Questenbury  a  short 
while  before  1645.) 

tHasted's  Kent,  Vol.  2,  page  486,  says:  "  Milgate,  an  eminent  seat  situated 
in  Bearsted  parish,  in  the  beginning  of  King  Henry  Vllth's  reign  became  the 
property  of  the  ancient  family  of  Stonehouse,  whose  ancient  seat  was  at  Hazle- 
wood,  in  Boughton  Malherbe.  Robert  Stonehouse  was  of  Bearsted,  Esquire,  in 
the  latter  end  of  King  Henry  Vlllth's  reign,  and  left  issue  by  Rose,  his  wife, 
daughter  of  Roy  don,  of  the  County  of  Essex,  one  son,  George  Stonehouse,  Esq., 
who  in  the  beginning  of  the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth  alienated  that  seat  to 
Thomas  Fludd,  Esq.,  afterwards  Knighted.  This  George  Stonehouse  was 
Clerk  of  the  Green  Cloth  to  Queen  Elizabeth,  and  lived  at  West  Peckham, 
County  Kent,  where  he  died  in  1575.  He  was  twice  married  :  first,  to  Elizabeth, 
dau.  of  Nicholas  Gibson,  Esq.,  by  whom  he  had  no  issue;  secondly,  to  Eliza- 
beth, dau.  of  Davy  Woodcroft,  by  whom  he  had  four  sons,  of  whom  William, 


ST.  NICHOLAS  CHURCH,  LEEDS,  KENT. 


INTERIOR  OF  ST.  NICHOLAS  CHURCH. 


IN  GERMANY,  ENGLAND  AND  AMERICA. 


45 


and  the  marriage  was  to  be  celebrated  in  one  of  three  named 
churches  in  London.  AVhether  that  child  of  Henry  Questen- 
bury,  who  was  unborn  at  the  time  of  his  death  in  1645,  ^^^^^  ^ 
son  or  a  daughter  no  record  has  yet  been  discovered  to  show. 
If  a  son,  he  may  have  been  the  Rev.  Thomas  Ouissinborow, 
who  was  living  in  the  parish  of  St.  Giles  Cripplegate,  London, 
in  1673,  whose  antecedents  nothing  has  been  learned.  Or 
this  Rev.  Thomas  Ouissinborow  may  have  been  the  son  of 
John,  the  son  of  James,  the  son  of  Henry  Ouestenbery,  of 
Leeds.  The  registers  of  the  parish  of  St.  Nicholas-at-Wade, 
Isle  of  Thanet,  do  not  contain  any  entry  of  the  name  of  Oues- 
tenbury  in  any  of  its  forms. 


James  Ouestenbury,  the  son  of  Henry,  of  Leeds,  was  the 
lineal  ancestor  of  all  the  Quisenberrys  (however  they  mav 
spell  the  name)  now  in  America.  He  was  baptized  at  Leeds 
on  November  15,  1578,  and  appears  on  the  parish  register  as 
"Jacobus  Ouessonberry,  filius  Henrici  "  (James  Ouestenbery, 
son  of  Henry.)  He  was  married,  but  not  in  Leeds  parish, 
apparently,  as  there  is  no  entry  of  the  marriage  in  the  parish 
register.  He  lived  in  Leeds  for  some  time  after  his  marriage, 
however,  for  the  registers  show  that  two  children  were  born 
to  him  there,  namely  :  "  1604,  May  6,  Mildred  Quessenberry, 

the  eldest,  was  created  a  Barouet  anno  4  Charles  I :  and  Nicholas,  the  second 
sou,  was  of  Boxley,  in  Kent." 

Vol.  2,  page  132:  "In  the  heraldic  visitation  of  Kent,  anno  1619,  is  an 
entry  of  the  descent  of  Nicholas  Stouehouse,  of  Boxley,  second  son  of  George 
Stonehouse,  of  Little  Peckham,  Esq.,  by  his  second  wife,  Elizabeth  Woodcroft, 
He  married  Joane,  dau.  of  Duke  Otterton,  of  the  County  of  Devon,  by  whom  he 
had  one  son,  Duke  Stonehouse,  born  in  1599,  and  four  daughters.  (Duke 
Stonehouse  was  the  father  of  Nicholas  Stonehouse,  who  married  Mary  Questeu- 
bury  in  1G63.)  Stonehouse  arms:  Argent,  on  a  fess  sable,  between  3  hawks, 
volent  azure,  a  leopard's  face  between  2  mullets  or. 


IX. 


46  MEMORIALS  OF  THE  OUISENBERRY  FAMILY 


filia  Jacobi,  baptizatus  fuit "  (Mildred  Questenbury,  daughter 
of  James,  was  baptized);  and  "  1604-5,  Jan.  5,  John  Quessen- 
berry,  filius  Jacobi,  was  baptized." 

James  Questenbury,  yeoman  (for  so  he  wrote  himself),  seems 
to  have  lived  for  a  time  in  Bromley,  Kent,  for  on  the  registers 
of  that  parish  is  the  following  entry  in  good,  honest  English  : 
"  1608,  the  1 6th  of  March,  Thomas,  the  son  of  James  Questen- 
bury, was  baptized."  Thomas  Questenbury  therefore  would 
not  have  been  of  legal  age,  twenty-oue  years,  until  about 
March  16,  1629.  well  to  remember  this  fact,  for  it 

becomes  of  importance  later  in  this  story. 

From  Bromley,  James  Questenbury  went  to  East  Greenwich, 
Kent,  now  called  Greenwich,  which  is  just  across  the  Thames 
from  "  Old  "  Eondon  ;  and  the  parrsh  registers  show  that  he 
was  buried  there  on  September  16,  1620.  In  his  will,  dated 
August  12,  1620,  he  bequeaths  all  his  "  lands,  tenements,  rent 
charges,  annuities  and  hereditaments  whatsoever  lying  in 
Eeeds,  to  John  Questenburye,  my  eldest  son,  and  his  heirs,  he 
paying  yearly  out  of  the  same  to  my  son  Thomas  Questenbury, 
for  his  life,  thirty  shillings,"  etc.  Thirty  shillings  was  a  great 
deal  more  money  then  than  it  is  now,  and  was  not  an 
insignificant  annuity  for  a  boy.  He  made  bequests  to  his 
daughter  Mildred,  and  to  his  wife  Joan,  who  was  also  named 
as  executrix.  Henry  Shorey,  of  East  Greenwich,  yeoman, 
was  made  overseer  of  the  will,  and  the  witnesses  were 
Reginald  Gleydell  and  John  Androes.* 

The  widow,  Joan  Questenbury,  then  aged  forty  years,  was 
married  at  St.  Peter's  Church,  Paul's  Wharf,  Eondon,  on  May 
19,  1624,  to  John  Griffin,  of  the  city  of  Westminster,  gentle- 
man, a  widower  of  sixty.  The  daughter,  Mildred,  married 
William  Welch,  as  is  shown  in  a  fine  levied  in  June,  1628,  in 
which  John  Questenbury,  Thomas  Questenbury,  and  William 
W^elch,  and  Mildred,  his  wife,  unite  in  conveying  to  Thomas 
Thatcher  "  two  messuages,  three  gardens,  and  three  acres  of 


♦John  Androes  was  also  probably  descended  from  a  Hanse  merchant,  Androes 
being  a  Dutch  or  German  name,  and  another  form  of  the  name  Andre,  which 
was  well  known  in  Cologne. 


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47 


land,  with  the  appurtenances,  in  Leeds,"  which  had  been  left 
to  John  Ouestenbury  under  his  father's  will.  Thomas  and 
^lildred  had  a  reversionary  interest  in  this  property  in  case 
John  should  die  without  lawful  issue,  and  they  had  to  join  in 
the  transfer  to  make  it  legal.  It  would  appear  from  this 
document  that  John  Ouestenbur\-,  then  twenty-two  years  old, 
was  not  married,  else  his  wife  would  also  have  joined  in  the 
transfer.  Whether  he  afterwards  married  and  had  children, 
or  what  became  of  him,  is  not  known,  as  no  further  record 
concerning  him  has  been  found. 

It  will  be  noted,  however,  that  Thomas  Ouestenbury,  born 
in  ^larch,  i6oS,  would  be  but  little  more  than  twenty  years 
old  in  June,  162S,  and  could  not  have  joined  in  the  transfer 
of  that  property.  Furthermore,  there  is  strong  presumptive 
evidence  that  in  162S  he  had  been  in  Virginia  for  three  or 
four  years. 

X. 

Thomas  Ouestenbury,  son  of  James  Ouestenbury,  of  East 
Greenwich,  yeoman,  was  the  first  of  the  name,  and  it  is 
believed  the  onlv  one,  who  ever  came  from  Eno-land  to 
Virginia,  and  in  that  event  he  was  the  ancestor  of  all  of  the 
family  now  in  America.  If  any  other  of  the  name  ever  came 
to  this  countrv  no  record  of  the  fact  has  been  found  thoueh 
an  exhaustive  search  has  been  made. 

He  probably  came  to  Mrginia  about  1624  or  1625,  and  he 
returned  to  England  in  1650,  and  settled  in  Canterburv, 
leaving  in  \hrginia  two  grown  sons — Francis,  wlio  died 
unmarried,  or  at  least  without  issue  ;  and  John,'^  who  married 
and  had  numerous  descendants,  and  about  whom  a  great  deal 
of  interesting  information  may  be  found  in  Genealogical 
Mojwraiida  of  the  Ouiseiiberry  Faniilw  published  in  1897. 
Thomas  Ouestenbury  was  probably  married  in  \hrginia  when 
only  eighteen  or  nineteen  years  of  age,  as  early  marriages 

*Tlie  will  of  this  -Jolin  Quessenbury,  who  died  in  "Westmoreland  County,  Ya.. 
in  1717,  vras  witnessed  by  Francis  Quisenbury  and  "William  Griffin.  It  is 
probable  that  this  "William  Griffin  was  Thomas  Questenbury's  half-brother. 


48  MEMORIAI.S  OF  THE  QUISENBERRY  FAMILY 

were  greatly  encouraged  at  that  time  in  the  Old  Dominion. 
His  son  John,  who  spelled  his  name  Qitessenhiuy^  was  born 
in  1627,  so  Thomas  Questenbury  must  have  been  in  Virginia 
at  least  as  early  as  1626  or  1627,  could  not  have  been  in 
England  in  1628. 

In  June,  1663,  Thomas  Questenbury,  then  a  shoemaker  in 
Canterbury,  England,  filed  a  bill  in  chancery  to  recover  the 
rent  charge  left  him  on  the  Eeeds  property  by  his  father's 
will.  He  recites  in  this  bill  that  his  father  died  in  1620, 
leaving  him  a  boy  of  the  age  of  twelve  years ;  and  that  he, 
plaintiff,  "  having  no  one  to  take  care  of  him,  could  not  obtain 
the  payment  of  the  thirty  shillings  a  year,  though  he  often 
asked  for  it,  but  was  forced  to  seek  his  fortune  and  go  beyond 
the  seas,  where  he  remained  for  many  years  ;  that  is  to  say, 
until  about  1650,  since  which  time  he  has  often  demanded 
the  payment  of  the  said  rent  charges  from  the  tenants  of  the 
said  lands,"  etc.,  but  was  unable  to  collect  it.  His  father's 
will  was  abstracted  and  hidden  in  order  that  he  might  be  the 
more  easily  defrauded  by  the  powerful  people  whose  interest 
it  was  to  defraud  him,  and  he  lost  the  suit,  notwithstanding 
all  the  evidence  and  equity  in  the  case  seemed  to  be  in  his 
favor. 

It  may  be  inferred  from  his  statement  in  the  chancery  bill 
that  Thomas  Questenbury  went  beyond  the  seas — that  is,  to 
Virginia — while  still  in  his  nonage,  and  because  he  had  no 
one  to  take  care  of  him  at  home.  His  mother,  who  was  his 
natural  guardian,  a  woman  in  good  circumstances,  married 
John  Griffin,  gentleman  ;  and  it  was  doubtless  at  the  instance 
of  Griffin  that  the  boy  was  cast  off  and  left  to  shift  for  him- 
self. Mr.  Griffin,  no  doubt,  collected  the  thirty  shillings  a 
year  rent  charges  on  the  Eeeds  property  until  it  was  sold  in 
1628,  and  devoted  the  money  to  his  own  purposes.  Very 
likely  it  was  he  who  united  in  the  transfer  of  that  property 
to  Thatcher,  doing  so  in  the  name  of  his  stepson,  who  was 
then  still  under  age,  and  far  away  beyond  the  seas.  Thomas 
Questenbury  could  not  have  been  defrauded  by  his  brother 
John  (who  was  himself  a  minor  until  1627)  for  he  named  his 


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49 


first  son  John,  and  there  can  be  no  doubt  that  he  gave  the 
child  that  name  in  honor  of  his  brother. 

In  1618,  1620,  1622,  and  1624  the  \'irginia  Company  of 
London  sent  over  to  Mrginia  companies  of  boys  vdio  vere 
friendless,  or  were  neglected  by  their  friends  in  London  ; 
and  they  took  care  to  send  none  but  worthy  boys  of  good 
character.  The  lads  were  taug-ht  useful  trades  in  \'irmnia, 
where  skilled  artisans  were  then  in  great  demand,  and  were 
given  opportunities  for  acquiring  as  much  education  as  boys 
generally  received  at  that  time  ;  and  as  they  finished  their 
trades  or  attained  their  majority  they  were  each  given  sixty 
acres  of  land.  At  least  that  was  the  contract  under  which 
thev  went  to  \'iro-inia.  Some  of  these  bovs  o-rew  to  be 
wealth}',  and  many  of  them  were  the  beginning  of  Avhat  are 
now  prominent  American  families. 

Thomas  Ouestenbery  certainly  learned  the  gentle  craft  of 
shoemaking in  \'irginia.  He  could  not  have  come  over 
with  either  of  the  companies  of  boys  who  arrived  in  161 8  and 
1620.  He  might  have  come  in  1622  or  1624,  and  must  cer- 
tainly have  arrived  in  one  or  the  other  of  those  years.  He 
seems  to  have  been  born  under  an  unlucky  star,  for  he  was 
always  unfortunate.  The  inference  is  that  he  did  not  prosper 
in  \'irginia,  else  he  would  not  have  returned  to  England, 
where,  in  1663,  he  stated  that  he  was  a  very  poor  man/' 
On  his  return  to  England  in  1650  he  set  up  as  a  shoemaker 
or  cordwainer  in  Canterbury,  and  it  is  believed  that  all  the 
Ouestenburys  in  Canterbury  subsequent  to  that  date,  of  whom 
record  has  been  found,  were  of  his  family.  In  1665  Joane 
Ouestenbury,  his  daughter  (named  for  his  mother;  was  buried 
at  the  Church  of  St.  ]\Iary,  Xorthgate,  Canterbury.  In  1666 
Thomas  Ouestenbury,  cordwainer.  of  the  same  parish,  was 
surety  on  a  marriage  bond.  In  1672  Sarah  Ouestenbury, 
spinster,  of  Canterbury,  doubtless  his  daughter,  acknowledged 
to  owe  to  Hartobello  Grunston,  blaster  of  the  Rolls,  ^40, 
which  she  charged  should  be  paid  out  of  her  property,  there- 
fore she  must  have  been  in  good  circumstances.  Why  she 
should  owe  the  Master  of  the  Rolls  £40  is  a  mystery,  unless 


50  MEMORIAI.S  OF  THE  OUISENBKRRY  FAMILY 


it  was  for  the  costs  that  accrued  against  her  father  in  his 
losing  suit  in  chancery  a  few  years  before.  The  Master  of 
the  Rolls  is  a  very  prominent  official  (second  only  to  the  Lord 
Chancellor  himself)  in  the  English  Court  of  Chancery.  In 
1675  Mildred  Ouessenbury,  of  Deal,  who  may  have  been  a 
daughter  of  Thomas  -Questenbury,  and  named  for  his  sister, 
was  married  to  William  Chandler,  of  Canterbury.  In  1678 
i\lice  Ouessenbury,  who  may  have  been  either  his  wife  or  his 
daughter,  was  buried  at  the  Church  of  St.  Mary,  Northgate. 
In  1689  Elizabeth  Ouessenbury  was  married  at  the  same 
church  to  Thomas  Gibbens,  and  this  is  the  very  last  positive 
mention  of  the  name  that  has  been  found  in  England. 

It  is  not  known  when  Thomas  Questenbury  died,  as  no 
record  of  his  death  has  been  found  in  Canterbury,  or  elsewhere. 
The  latest  record  about  him  is  dated  1666,  when  he  was  suret}^ 
on  a  marriage  bond,  and  at  that  time  he  was  fifty-eight  years 
old.  It  is  probable  that  he  died  about  1672,  when  his 
daughter  assumed  to  pay  the  costs  of  his  chancery  suit ;  and  at 
that  time  (1672)  his  age  would  have  been  sixty-four  years. 
His  life  was  full  of  troubles  for  which  he  was  not  responsible, 
but  he  has  been  at  rest  for  more  than  two  hundred  and  twenty- 
five  years.    Peace  to  his  ashes  ! 

Though  Thomas  Questenbury  himself  apparently  did  not 
prosper  in  America,  the  race  he  left  behind  him  here,,  always 
a  prolific  one,  has  been  very  prosperous  indeed.  The  old 
Hanse  thrift  and  business  instinct  have  cropped  out  among 
them  incessantly,  from  generation  to  generation,  and  many  of 
them  have  been  quite  wealthy,  and  all  of  them,  practically, 
well-to-do,  and  good  livers.  And  what  is  more  to  the  purpose, 
honesty,  probity  and  candor  have  been  race  characteristics 
with  them  in  all  the  generations  since  Thomas  Questenbury, 
a  poor  but  honest  boy,  first  set  his  foot  on  "  Old  Virginia's 
shore  "  two  hundred  and  seventy-five  years  ago. 


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51 


XI. 

Record  has  been  found  of  a  few  people  of  our  name  in 
London,  who  could  not  be  connected  by  any  even  presumptive 
proof  with  any  other  branches  of  the  family.  The  most  that 
can  be  surmised  is  that  they  may  have  descended  from  some 
of  the  unaccounted  for  sons  of  Henry  Ouestenbery,  of  Leeds, 
or  from  Thomas  Questenbury's  brother,  John. 

In  1666  license  was  issued  for  the  marriage  of  Praise  Ques- 
senbourow,  of  St.  Sepulcher's  parish,  London,  grocer,  about 
twenty-one  years  old,  to  Mary  Natt,  of  the  same  parish  ;  and  the 
marriage  was  to  occur  at  either  of  two  churches  named : 
Islington,  Middlesex,  or  Christ  Church,  London.  This  was 
the  year  of  the  great  plague  and  the  great  fire  in  London. 
Praise  Ouessenbourow's  name  indicates  very  clearly  that  his 
branch  of  the  family  were  Puritans  "  of  the  most  straitest 
sect  of  the  Pharisees."  His  full  name  was,  very  likely,  Praise 
God.    Praise  God  Quisenberry  !  Phcebiis! 

On  February  i,  1673,  license  was  issued  for  the  marriage 
of  Samuel  Quissinburrowe,  of  St.  Giles,  Cripplegate,  London, 
bachelor,  twenty-three,  to  ]\Iary  Warner,  of  the  parish  of  St. 
Michael,  Bassishawe.  Rev.  Thomas  Quissinborow  alleged 
that  her  parents  were  dead.  Although  this  license  was  issued 
February  i,  1673,  marriage  did  not  take  place  until 
September  4,  of  the  same  year,  as  the  parish  registers  (St. 
Giles)  show.  Oliver  Cromwell  was  married  in  this  church, 
and  Milton,  the  poet,  and  Foxe,  the  martyrologist,  are  buried 
there. 

On  August  3,  1681,  "Praise  Quessenborow,  sonne  of 
Samuel  Quessenborow,  was  admitted  by  patrimony  "  to  the 
Grocers'  Company,  of  London.  The  words  "  admitted  by 
patrimony  "  show  that  Samuel,  the  father  of  Praise,  w^as  also 
a  freeman  of  the  Grocers'  Company.  And  these  were  a  new 
Praise  and  a  new  Samuel.  Praise  Quessenbourow,  who  was 
married  in  1666  could  not  have  been  the  father  of  Samuel 
who  was  married  in  1673  5  could  this  Samuel  have  been 
the  father  of  the  Praise  who  was  admitted  to  the  Grocers' 


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Company  in  1681  ;  but  the  similarity  of  names  indicates  a 
close  relationship  between  them  all,  and  there  may  have  been 
a  very  numerous  family  of  the  name  in  London  about  that 
time. 

XII. 

The  records  thus  far  disclosed  (and  it  does  not  seem  that 
any  others  will  be  found)  do  not  indicate  that  the  family  of 
Questenbury  was  ever  very  numerous  in  England  at  any  one 
time.  Though  the  names  of  many  of  the  family  there  have 
been  found,  they  are  scattered  over  a  considerable  period  of 
time. 

The  English  records  do  not  appear  to  have  been  thoroughly 
kept,  especially  the  parish  registers.  There  are  many  apparent 
gaps  and  omissions  in  these  that  are  unaccountable,  and  but 
for  these  omissions  we  might  have  had  a  much  more  connected 
history  of  the  family.  Again,  we  find  record  of  certain  lands 
being  in  possession  of  certain  members  of  the  family  in  Kent, 
but  no  record  of  how  those  lands  came  into  their  possession 
or  went  out  of  it.  The  system  of  land  transfers  inter  vivos  in 
England,  seems  a  very  strange  and  cumbersome  one  to  an 
American,  but  it  need  not  be  discussed  her^. 

The  extinction  of  the  Questenbury  family  in  England 
(where  it  was  never  numerous)  by  or  before  the  year  1700, 
may  be  largely  due  to  the  fact  that  many  of  its  members  were 
carried  away  by  the  great  plague,  1664  to  1666,  and  that  such 
of  them  as  survived  had  few  or  no  male  children  after  that 
time.  At  any  rate,  they  totally  disappeared  from  England, 
as  they  afterwards  did  from  Cologne  and  Austria  and  Silesia. 
But  there  are  thousands  of  us  yet  in  America,  where,  let  us 
hope,  we  may  never  become  extinct. 


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53 


THE  AMERICAN  BRANCH. 


Childye7i' s  children  are  the  cror.n  of  old  men.  and  the  glory  of  children 
are  their  fathersy — Proverbs  vii,  6. 


I. 

A  book  called  Genealogical  Meinorajida  of  the  Oiiisenberry 
Family  and  OtJier  Faniilies  was  published  in  1S97,  to  which 
those  readers  are  referred  who  desire  a  more  particular  and 
detailed  account  of  the  American  Ouisenberrys.  Only  a 
resume  will  be  attempted  here,  though  this  sketch  contains  a 
good  deal  of  new  matter,  or  matter  that  was  not  published  in 
the  former  book. 

When  the  first  book  was  printed  it  was  supposed  that  John 
Quessenbury,  who  appears  in  the  records  of  Westmoreland 
county,  \'a.,  about  1651,  was  the  first  of  the  name  in  America  ; 
and  it  was  also  believed  that  he  had  been  born  in  England. 
However,  it  has  already  been  shown  in  a  previous  part  of 
this  book  that  Thomas  Questenbury  came  from  England  to 
Mrginia,  about  1625,  and,  although  an  exhaustive  search 
has  been  made,  no  record  has  been  found  of  any  other  person 
of  the  name  ever  coming  at  all.  So  John  Ouessenburv,  who 
was  born  in  1627,  necessarily  must  have  been  the  son  of 
Thomas  Questenbury,  who  returned  to  England  in  1650, 
when  John  was  about  23  years  old.  The  first  record  John 
sigfued  in  \hro;inia  was  bv  mark,  indicatino-  that  he  could  not 
then  write,  but  all  the  subsequent  records  in  which  he  was 
concerned  are  sig-ned  with  his  name,  showino-  that  he  had 
learned  to  write  after  the  return  of  his  father  to  England. 
His  brother  Francis,  who  also  remained  in  \hro-inia,  where 
he  died  unmarried  after  17 14,  appears  never  to  have  learned 
to  write.  The  t  in  Questenbury  is  shown  to  have  been  silent, 
and  this  explains  why  John  Quessenbury  left  it  out  of  his 


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name  when  he  learned  to  write  after  his  father  had  gone 
"  home,"  and  there  was  no  one  to  tell  him  the  correct  orthog- 
raphy of  his  name,  which  he  appears  to  have  spelled  phonet- 
ically. 

John  Quessenbury  died  in  1717.  The  name  of  his  wife  is 
believed  to  have  been  Anne  Pope,  and  she  was,  no  doubt,  a 
cousin  of  that  other  Anne  Pope  who  married  John  Wash- 
ington, the  great  grandfather  of  George  Washington. 

John  Quessenbury  and  Anne,  his  wife,  had  three  children- 
John,  who  died  childless,  and  William  and  Humphrey.  Some 
of  William's  descendants  are  still  living  in  Westmoreland 
county  and  other  parts  of  Virginia,  and  others  are  scattered  in 
various  States,  but  it  has  not  been  possible  to  learn  much  about 
them.  One  of  his  grandsons,  Nicholas  Quesenbury,  settled 
about  1775  in  Margate  Parish,  Wake  county,  North  Carolina, 
and  from  him  are  descended  some  families  of  the  name  in  Ten- 
nessee, Arkansas,  Indian  Territory,  Texas,  etc.  The  names 
of  some  of  his  sons  were  Anderson,  John,  Humphrey,  James, 
and  William  Minor  Quesenbury.    The  latter  was  born  in 

North  Carolina,  June  14,  1777,  and  married  Betsey  in 

Winchester,  Tenn.  His  eldest  dau.,  Sallie  Quesenbury,  m. 
Col.  Alfred  Henderson,  and  one  of  their  daughters  m.  Dr.  W. 
W.  Walker,  of  Schulenburg,  Texas.  The  other  children  of 
Wm.  Minor  Quesenbury  were  :  Elizabeth,  m.  Mr.  Shorers  ; 
Richard,  who  had  sons  Albert  and  Sanford.  (Sanford  Quesen- 
bury m.  Bessie  Green,  of  Van  Buren,  Ark.,  and  they  had  one 
child — Sue,  b.  July  9,  1881).  Thomas,  who  had  several  sons, 
and  Frances,  who  m.  Mr.  Quail,  and  had  several  children, 
one  of  whom  m.  Hon.  James  H.  Berry,  now  a  United  States 
Senator  from  Arkansas.  Her  other  children  were  Mrs.  Jennie 
Blackburn,  Mrs.  H.  C.  Carter,  Walker  Quail  and  William 
Quail,  all  of  Ozark,  Ark.,  and  Mrs.  O.  M.  Bourland,  of  Van 
Buren,  Ark. 

Humphrey  Quesenbury,  youngest  son  of  John  Quessenbury, 
of  Westmoreland  county,  Va.,  lived  in  King  George  county, 
Va.,  and  had  at  least  two  sons — Thomas  and  Humphrey. 
Humphrey  w^ent  to  Westmoreland  county,  and  died  there  in 


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1776,  leaving  numerous  children  ;  one  of  whom,  ]Mar\',  m.  John 
Marshall,  uncle  of  the  Chief  Justice  of  the  same  name,  and  their 
son,  Humphrey  ^Marshall,  was  a  United  States  Senator  (i  795- 
1800)  from  Kentucky,  and  author  (^iSi2  '  of  the  first  history  of 
Kentucky.  Thomas  Quesenbury,  the  other  son,  settled  in 
Caroline  county,  \'a.,  and  was  the  father  of  Aaron  Quisenberry, 
who,  no  doubt,  was  his  onlv  child. 


This  Aaron  Quisenberry.  as  shown  by  the  records,  could 
not  write,  but  signed  by  making  a  capital  A  as  ''his  mark." 
It  has  for  some  time  been  noticed  that  all  the  people  in  the 
various  parts  of  the  United  States  who  spell  their  name 
Quisenberry  (and  they  are  very  numerous)  can  with  very 
little  trouble  be  traced  back  to  this  Aaron  Quisenberry.  His 
sons  were  all  well  educated  for  the  times  in  which  they 
lived,  but  they  were  in  a  county  in  which  no  other  branch 
of  the  family  lived,  and  when  they  came  to  spell  their  name 
they  spelled  it  as  it  sounded  to  them — Qnisenberry.  Aaron 
Quisenberry  was  a  wealthy  man,  but  it  appears  probable  that 
he  was  left  an  orphan  while  still  of  tender  years,  and  this 
would  account  for  his  education  being  neglected.  In  1756 
he  left  Caroline  county  and  bought  a  plantation  in  Spottsyl- 
vania  ;  and  this  he  sold  in  1769,  immediately  buying  another 
(614  acres!  in  Orange  county,  where  he  died  in  1795.  The 
dates  of  his  birth  and  marriage  are  not  known,  but  he  was 
probably  born  about  1715.  His  wife,  whose  Christian  name 
was  Joyce,  is  supposed  to  have  been  the  daughter  of  Robert 
Dudley  and  Joyce  Gayle,  his  wife,  who  owned  a  plantation 
adjoining  that  of  Aaron  Quisenberry,  in  Orange  county.  The 
sons  of  this  marriage  were  :  i.  Aaron,  Jr.;  2.  Moses  ;  3.  AVil- 
liani ;  4.  John  ;  5.  George ;  6.  James. 


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I.  Aaron  Quisenberry^  Jr.^ 

lived  and  died  in  Orange  county,  and  was  twice  married. 
The  name  of  his  first  wife  is  not  known  ;  the  second  was 
Sallie  Ellis.  His  children  were :  i.  Stephen.  2.  Thomas. 
3.  Aaron  Shelton.  4.  David.  5.  Winnifred,  m.  Morris. 
6.  Polly,  m.  Bell.  7.  Benjamin,  went  to  Kentucky.  8.  Joyce, 
m.  Wm.  Reynolds.  9.  Sallie,  m.  John  Henderson.  10.  Eliza- 
beth, m.  Thomas  Nelson,  and  they  went  to  Kentucky. 
II.  Hezekiah  Ellis,  m..  Sally  Burris.  12.  Nancy,  m.  Curtis 
Brockman.     13.  I^ucy,  m.  Asa  Brockman. 

(3)  Aaron  Shelton  Quisenberry  m.  Henrietta  Reynolds,  and 
they  went  to  Jefferson  county,  Ky.,  in  1810.  Their  children 
were  Robert  and  William,  and  Evaline,  who  m.  Mr.  Johnson, 
and  was  the  mother  of  Hon.  E.  Polk  Johnson,  who  was  for 
many  years  the  managing  editor  of  the  Eouisville  Courier- 
Journal,  whose  dan.  m.  Garrett  S.  Zorn,  of  Louisville. 

2.  Moses  Quisenberry. 

It  is  regretted  that  more  could  not  be  learned  about  Moses 
Quisenberry  and  his  descendants.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  the 
publication  of  this  work  was  delayed  for  several  months  in  a 
vain  effort  to  secure  fuller  information  about  them. 

The  records  of  Orange  county,  Va.,  show  that  in  1772 
Aaron  Quisenberry  and  Joyce,  his  wife,  "  in  consideration  of 
natural  love  and  affection,"  conveyed  to  their  son  Moses 
Quisenberry  100  acres  of  land  ;  and  they  also  show  that  the 
original  deed  was  "  delivered  to  James  Quisenberry,  son  of 
Moses,"  in  1789.  Moses  Quisenberry  left  Virginia  and  went 
to  Kentucky,  and  the  early  land  records  of  that  State  show 
that  he  entered  131  acres  in  Breckinridge  county,  and  after- 
wards 137  acres  in  Green  county.  In  addition  to  James,  he 
had  sons  named  John,  George,  and  Edward  Sanford,  and  per- 
haps others — all  of  whom  were  born  in  Virginia.  These  sons 
settled  in  Christian  county,  Ky.,  about  181 5,  and  now  have 
descendants  in  that  county  and  in  other  counties  in  South- 
western Kentucky,  except  Edward  Sanford  Quisenberry,  who 
moved  to  Logan  county,  Illinois,  in  1835. 


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57 


James  Quisenberry,  of  Christian  county,  Ky.,  had  sons 
named  Edward  and  Richard,  and  perhaps  others.  Nothing 
has  been  learned  of  the  children  of  John  and  George. 

Miss  Jennie  F.  Quisenberry,  of  Calhoon,  McLean  county, 
Ky.,  writes  (May  20,  1900):  "My  parents  died  when  I  was 
quite  young,  and  I  have  seen  and  know  but  little  of  my 
father's  people.  My  grandfather,  James  Quisenberry,  of 
Christian  county,  married  a  Miss  Garrett,  of  the  same  county, 
and  they  afterwards  moved  to  Muhlenburg  county,  Ky.,  near 
Greenville.  They  had  but  tw^o  children,  Edward  E.  Quisen- 
berry (my  father)  and  Catherine  Quisenberry,  both  deceased. 
My  father  married  Miss  Margaret  Davis,  who  belonged  to  one 
of  the  finest  families  of  the  State,  and  they  had  seven  children, 
of  whom  but  four  are  now^  living.  Catherine  Quisenberry 
married  a  Mr.  Frazier,  and  Robert  Frazier,  of  Greenville,  Ky., 
is  their  son.  I  have  Quisenberry  relatives  in  Christian 
county,  but  have  never  seen  them.  I  have  been  in  this 
county  but  two  years,  and  am  a  teacher  in  Calhoon  College. 
Thomas  and  Garland  Quisenberry  live  in  Sacramento,  this 
county.  I  do  not  know  w^ho  their  father  was,  but  I  know 
they  belong  to  my  branch  of  the  family." 

Edward  Sanford  Quisenberry,  the  youngest  child  of  Moses 
Quisenberry,  w^as  born  in  Virginia  in  1787.  He  served  as  a 
soldier  in  the  war  of  181 2,  and  soon  after  the  close  of  that 
war  he  settled  in  Christian  county,  Ky.,  and  in  1835  he 
moved  to  Logan  county,  Illinois,  where  he  became  quite 
wealthy.  He  was  twice  married  and  raised  nineteen  children 
to  be  men  and  women — nine  sons  and  ten  daughters.  x\mong 
his  descendants  now  living  in  Illinois  are  H.  C.  Quisenberry, 
Arthur  Quisenberry,  Allen  Quisenberry,  T.  H.  Quisenberry, 
E.  S.  Quisenberry,  J.  J.  Quisenberry,  R.  Quisenberry,  J. 
Quisenberry,  T.  Quisenberry,  and  W.  Quisenberry. 

3.  William  Qinseiiberry^ 

a  copy  of  whose  signature  appears  on  the  accompanying  fac 
si7nile  of  a  bond  he  gave  to  Henry  Tandy  in  1795,  was  born 


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ME^MORIALS  OI^  THE  QUISENBKRRY  EAMILY 


in  Orange  county,  Va.,  about  1747,  and  died  in  the  same 
county  in  1808,  leaving  a  considerable  estate.  He  was  twice 
married.  By  his  first  wife,  Agnace  Morton  (daughter  of  Bli- 
jah  Morton  and  Elizabeth  Hawkins)  there  were  four  children, 
as  follows  : 

1.  Aaron  Quisenberry,  married  Sarah  ,  and  they  had 

one  son,  Richard,  who  died  young. 

2.  Elizabeth  Quisenberry,  married  Benjamin  Pendleton. 
Three  children — i.  Ann,  who  m.  a  Mr.  Howard,  and  moved  to 
Alabama  ;  2.  William,  who  also  moved  to  Alabama  ;  3.  John. 

3.  Jane  Quisenberry,  married  Smith,  and  moved  to 

Kentucky. 

4.  Elijah  Quisenberry,  born  March  10,  1781,  and  died  June 
29,  1845,  "Rose  Valley,"  Spottsylvania  county,  Va.  Mar- 
ried Ivucy  Nelson  *  (born  April  18,  1783  ;  died  Jan.  10,  1848),  a 
lineal  descendant  of  the  first  Thomas  Nelson,  of  Yorktown, 
Va.,  and  their  10  children  were  :  i.  Nelson  Quisenberry,  died 
unmarried.  2.  William  Quisenberry,  married  Jane  Hiter. 
Children— Rev.  Wm.  Y.,  Rev.  Hiter  N.,  Elva,  Sarah,  Mattie, 
Virginia,  Inez,  Leta,  Pearl,  and  Ralph.  3.  Agnace  Morton 
Quisenberry,  married  Thomas  Smith  ;  no  children.  4.  Lucy 
Tate  Quisenberry,  married  James  Gardner  ;  one  child — Dr. 
James  E.  Gardner,  a  surgeon  in  the  United  States  Navy,  who 
married  Frances  Jones,  of  New  Hampshire  (a  lineal  descend- 
ant of  Wm.  Penn)  and  has  two  children — James  and  Mary. 
5.  Albert  Quisenberry,  married  Julia  Fant ;  four  children — 
John  Strother,  Joseph  M.,  Frances,  Lucy.  6.  James  M.  Quis- 
enberry, born  1812  ;  married  Frances  Spindle  (granddaughter 
of  Major  Benjamin  Alsop,t  of  the  Revolutionary  Army),  and 
their  children  were  :  Elizabeth  Virginia  Quisenberry.  Emma 
Quisenberry,  m.  James  Taylor,  of  Kent  county,  Md  ;  no  chil- 
dren. Ellen  Quisenberry,  m.  Dr.  Geo.  P.  Holman,  of  Vir- 
ginia ;  four  children — Archer  P.,  Mary, Virginia,  George.  Har- 

*  The  Nelson  arms  are  :  ' '  Per  pale,  argent  and  sable,  a  chevron  between  3  fleurs 
de  lis,  counterchanged.    Crest — a  fleur  de  lis." 

t  The  Alsop  arms  are  :  "  Sable,  3  doves  argent,  wings  expanded,  legged  and 
beaked  gules.  Crest — A  dove  with  wings  expanded,  holding  in  his  beak  an  ear 
of  wheat." 


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59 


riet  Quisenberry,  m.  Dr.  Winfield  Dulaney,  of  Maryland  ;  no 
children.  James  M.  Quisenberry,  m.  Lucy  Jones,  and  settled 
in  Tipton  County,  Tenn.;  three  children — Kate,  Edgar,  Wil- 
bur. 7.  Dr.  John  A.  B.  Quisenberry,  died  in  Paris,  Ky., 
unmarried.  8.  Ann  Quisenberry,  m.  Benjamin  Vass ;  no 
children.  9.  Thomas  Edwin  Quisenberry,  born  1820;  law- 
yer ;  m.  x\nna  Price  (descended  from  Gen.  Daniel  Morgan,  of 
the  Revolutionary  Army),  and  settled  in  Danville,  Ky.,  where 
he  died  June  15,  1871  ;  three  children — Lucy  Quisenberry, 
died  unmarried  ;  John  A.  Quisenberry,  married  Pattie  Beatty, 
daughter  of  Ormond  Beatty,  LL.  D.  (President  of  Centre 
College,  Kentucky),  and  Pattie  Bell,  and  they  have  one  child — 
Thomas  Edwin  Quisenberry,  born  May  24,  1891 — and  Robert 
Taylor  Quisenberry,  who  in  1880  graduated  in  law  from  the 
University  of  Virginia,  in  which  institution  his  record  has 
been  rarely  equalled  and  never  excelled.  He  is  now  (1900) 
practicing  law  in  Danville,  Ky.  10.  Susan  Quisenberry,  m. 
James  Walton  ;  four  children — James,  m.  Matilda  Farrand  ; 
John  F.,  m.  May  Helm  ;  Sallie,  m.  James  Hall ;  Susan,  m. 
James  Wright. 

By  his  second  wife,  a  widow  Swann,  William  Quisenberry 
had  six  children,  as  follows  : 

1.  William  Quisenberry,  a  physician,  who  lived  in  King 
George  county,  Va.,  married  a  widow  Ashton,  and  left  no 
children. 

2.  James  Quisenberry,  married  Eliza  Stone,  and  moved  to 
Missouri. 

3.  Charles  Quisenberry,  married  Antonio  Brent,  and  lived 
in  Lynchburg,  Va. 

4.  Lucy  Quisenberry,  married  a  Mr.  Montague. 

5.  Maria  Quisenberry,  married  a  Mr.  Thompson. 

6.  Ann  Quisenberry,  married  Ralph  Dickinson  ;  two  chil- 
dren— Rev.  Alfred  Dickinson,  D.  D.,  of  Richmond,  Va.,  and 
Dr.  Charles  Dickinson. 


6o  MEMORIAI.S  01^  THK  QUISENBERRY  EAMILY 


4.  Joh7i  Quisenberry 

probably  went  from  Orange  county,  Va.,  to  Kentucky  in  1783, 
in  company  with  his  brother,  Rev.  James  Quisenberry.  At 
any  rate  he  bought  land  in  what  is  now  Clark  county,  Ky.,  in 
1788,  but  in  1808  he  sold  it  and  went  to  Warren  county,  Ky., 
where  he  settled.  His  wife's  given  name  was  Rachel,  but  her 
maiden  name  is  not  now  known.  It  is  believed  that  John 
Quisenberry  had  several  sons  and  daughters,  but  no  one  now 
has  knowledge  of  any  but  one  of  his  children — Nicholas 
Quisenberry,  who  sold  his  farm  in  Clark  county  in  1808,  and 
also  settled  in  Warren  county. 

Nicholas  Quisenberry  married,  in  Clark  county,  IvUcy 
Stevens,  daughter  of  James  Stevens,  and  they  had  ten 
children,  viz  : 

I.  John  Quisenberry  ;  2.  James  Quisenberry  ;  of  neither  of 
whom  is  anything  now  definitely  known.  — 

3.  Menawether  (or  Maury)  Quisenberry,  who  was  the 
father  of  William  S.  Quisenberry,  now  the  only  one  of  the 
name  in  Warren  county,  Ky. 

4.  Mary  Quisenberry,  married  a  Mr.  White. 

5.  Susan  Quisenberry,  married  Robert  Morris,  of  Warren 
county,  Ky. 

6.  William  B.  Quisenberry,  born  near  Bowling  Green,  Ky., 
Jan.  7,  181 2  ;  settled  in  Columbia,  Mo.,  where  he  married 
Joan  Henderson,  daughter  of  Judge  James  Henderson.  Their 
children  are  Sallie  A.  Quisenberry,  who  married  Dr.  John  S. 
Potts,  of  San  Francisco,  Cal.  ;  Mary  Quisenberry,  who 
married  Dr.  Edward  C.  Camplin,  and  lives  in  Hollister,  Cal.; 
Helen  Quisenberry,  who  married  Samuel  E.  O'Bannon,  of 
Litchfield,  111.;  and  Eucy  Quisenberry,  who  married  Dr. 
Pinckney  French,  of  St.  Eouis,  Mo. 

7.  Sallie  A.  Quisenberry  (called  Paulina),  married  Dr. 
Richard  Ford. 

8.  Chesterfield  Quisenberry,  born  in  Warren  county,  Ky., 
married  in  Bowling  Green,  Ky.,  Feb.  2,  1843,  to  Susannah  M. 
Scaggs,  and  in  1859  settled  in  Boone  county.  Mo.    Went  to 


IN  GERMANY,  ENGLAND  AND  AMERICA.  6l 


Grayson  county,  Texas,  in  1875,  and  died  in  Sherman,  Texas, 
in  1880.  He  had  eleven  children,  viz  :  i.  James  Nicholas, 
b.  Aug.  16,  1844;  m.  in  1879  I^aura  KUen  Cook,  and  they 
have  two  children — Lenious  Watson  and  Nellie  May.  2.  Har- 
riet Ellen,  b.  May  18,  1846;  in  1867  m.  Francis  Marion 
Murray,  and  had  two  children — Francis  Marion  and  Harry. 
Becoming  a  widow  she  married  John  D.  Vanlandigham,  by 
whom  she  had  one  child — Herschel.  3.  Alzira  Ewing,  m. 
Benj.  F.  Cockran,  by  whom  she  had  one  son — Lenny.  4.  Wil- 
liam Monroe,  m.  Mary  Murphy,  of  St.  lyouis.  5.  Dorothy 
Smith,  b.  Sept.  14,  1849  5  Wm.  R.  Hopper,  of  Gainesville, 
Tex.,  and  had  two  children — Edward  Everett  and  Nellie  Lee. 
6.  Lucy  Ann,  recently  married,  and  lives  in  Chicago.  7.  John 
Briggs,  never  married.  Was  fitting  himself  as  a  sculptor 
when  accidentally  killed  in  1889.  8.  Henry  Jackson,  never 
married.  Was  first  engineer  on  a  line  of  Pacific  Ocean 
steamers.  Now  a  gold  miner  in  the  Klondike.  9.  Everett 
Bell,  b.  Oct.  26,  1861  ;  stenographer  and  court  reporter.  Nov. 
26,  1890,  m.  Hattie  Cora  Elliott,  and  they  have  two  children — 
George  Elliott,  b.  Aug.  30,  1891  ;  and  Maxine,  b.  March  11, 
1897.  10.  Paul  Jones,  b.  Feb.  2,  1863;  m.  Effie  Peal  in  Pilot 
Point,  Texas,  in  1884,  and  they  have  one  child- — Henry  Jones, 
b.  1888.  II.  Robert  Lee,  b.  July  21,  1865;  Ada  Pearl 
Vanlandigham,  and  they  have  had  three  children,  of  whom 
only  one  survives — x\rthur  Lee,  b.  1893. 

9.  Monroe  Quisenberry,  b.  in  Warren  county,  Ky.,  Nov.  16, 
1825;  m.  Carrie  Cress  in  Litchfield,  111.,  Oct.  16,  1867,  and 
settled  in  Boone  county.  Mo.  Died  1898.  He  had  three 
children,  viz  :  i.  Francis  Marion,  b.  Aug.  10,  1868.  2.  Jesse 
Lee,  b.  July  11,  1871  ;  now  living  in  Chicago.  3.  Alma  Lee, 
b.  July  19,  1881. 

10.  Harriet  Ellen  Quisenberry,  married,  first,  Cyrus 
Jenkins  ;  secondly,  a  Mr.  Durham,  by  neither  of  whom  she 
had  any  children.    Died  in  Bowling  Green,  Ky. 


62  MEMORIALS  OF  THE  QUISENBERRY  EAMIEY 


5.  George  Quisenberry^ 


whose  signature  appears  on  the  bond  of  Wm.  Quisenberry, 
reproduced  in  this  book,  lived  and  died  in  Orange  county,  Va.; 
was  three  times  married,  and  had  22  children,  viz  :  (By  first 
wife,  Jane  Daniel) :  Jane,  m.  Wm.  Reynolds;  George  ;  Sidna, 
m.  John  Newman  ;  Daniel,  m.  Mary  Rhoades,  who  survived 
him,  and  in  1837  settled  in  Saline  county.  Mo.,  with  her  seven 
children;  Vivian,  m.  Sarah  Wright;  Millie,  m.  John  New- 
man ;  Elizabeth,  m.  John  Herndon.  (By  second  wife,  Peggy 
Reynolds) :  Eliza,  m.  Benjamin  Wright  ;  Joseph  ;  William, 
m.  Kitty  Terrill ;  Joyce  ;  David  ;  Albert,  m.  Sarah  Reynolds  ; 
Lucy,  m.  Jack  Wright ;  James,  m.  ist,  Elizabeth  Rhoades  ; 
2d,  Frances  Sanders  ;  Mary  Ann,  m.  John  Falconer ;  Sarah, 
m.  George  Tinder;  George;  John,  m.  Mary  Ellen  Rose; 
Nancy,  m.  Richard  Tinder.  By  his  third  wife  George 
Quisenberry  had  two  children  who  died  in  infancy,  and  were 
never  named. 

The  seven  children  of  Daniel  Quisenberry  and  Mary 
Rhoades,  his  wife,  have  left  a  very  numerous  progeny  in 
Saline  and  adjacent  counties,  in  Missouri.  Among  these  are 
Richard  D.  Quisenberry  (son  of  Daniel  Quisenberry,  Jr.,  and 
Mary  A.  Gwinn),  b.  March  19,  1864,  and  married  Mrs.  Lissa 
Perry  on  April  30,  1890;  and  Thos.  E.  Quisenberry  (son  of 
George  Quisenberry  and  Sarah  E.  Reynolds,  his  wife),  who 
was  married  in  1893  to  Mabel  Doan,  and  has  children.  Richard 
D.  and  Thos.  E.  Quisenberry  both  live  in  Slater,  Mo. 


a  minister  of  the  Baptist  Church,  and  probably  the  youngest 
son  of  Aaron  Quisenberry  and  Joyce,  his  wife,  was  born 
in  Spottsylvania  county,  Virginia,  July  5,  1759.    On  Dec.  4, 


III. 


6.  Rev.  James  Qitisenherry^ 


IX  GERMANY,  ENGLAND  AND  AMERICA. 


63 


1776,  he  m.  Jane  Burris,  or  Biirrus  (dan.  of  Thomas  Bnrris, 
a  soldier  in  both  Braddock's  War  and  the  Revohitionary 
War,  and  Frances  Tandy,  his  wife),  and  in  17S3,  at  the 
close  of  the  Revolutionary  War — in  which  he  had  seen  some 
service  as  a  militiaman — he  went  to  Kentucky,  and  was  for  a 
while  one  of  the  garrison  under  Col.  Daniel  Boone  in  the  fort 
at  Boonesboro.  Soon  afterwards  he  settled  in  what  is  now 
Clark  countv,  Kv.,  where  he  remained  until  his  death,  Auo-. 

o 

5,  1S30.  His  wife  died  Xov.  3,  iSii,  after  having  borne  him 
thirteen  children,  to-wit  : 

1.  Joyce  Ouisenberry,  b.  Oct.  25,  1777;  m.  Wm.  Duncan, 
and  they  settled  in  ^Missouri.  Issue. 

2.  Frances  Ouisenberry,  b.  (Jet.  6,  1779;  m.  John  Bruner. 
Issue. 

3.  Jane  Otiisenberry,  b.  Feb.  22,  1782  ;  m.  Ambrose  Bush; 
issue. 

4.  Joel  Ouisenberry,  b.  Jan.  31,  17S4,  d.  Sept.  5,  1S47  ^ 
Elizabeth  Haggard,  b.  Jan.  iS,  17S4,  d.  [March  10.  1S69. 
They  had   12   children,   viz  :     i.    ^lary,  b.  ]\Iay  13,  1S0.5. 

2.  James,  b.  C)ct.  5,  1S06,  m.  Elizabeth  Gibbs  in  1S31,  and  thev 
had  7  children — Franklin  P.:  Hiram:  Ella,  m.  Capt.  H.  S. 
Parrish  ;  Talitha,  m.  Jas.  Grigsby  ;  Alice,  m.  Grant  Berrv; 
Prudence,  m.   ;  the  eldest  daughter  m.  Wm.  F.  Prewitt. 

3.  \'irginia,  b.  Sept.  30,  1S08,  m.  Tandy  Chenault,  Xov.  15, 
1S28  ;  7  or  8  children.  4.  Joyce,  b.  Dec.  4,  1810  ;  m.  Xov. 
27,  1831,  Harrison  Thomson,  had  4  children — Elizabeth,  m. 
Ben.  B.  Groom  ;  Albert  ;  Harrison  P.,  m.  ^liss  Speck,  of  St. 
Louis  ;  and  a  daughter  m.  W.  B.  ]\Iocre,  of  Frankfort,  Ky. 
5.  Roger,  b.  Xov.  28,  1812  ;  m.  Ann  Evans,  and  had  8  or  10 
children.  6.  Pamelia,  b.  X^ov.  24,  1814;  m.  Silas  Evans, 
issue.  7.  Talitha,  b.  Dec.  17,  1824;  m.  David  Watts,  issue. 
(  Watts  died  and  Pamelia  Evans  died,  and  then  Silas  Evans 
m.  Talitha  Watts,  and  had  ks^ie).  8.  X'ancy,  b.  Jan.  1821, 
d.  ^lay  19,  1843.  9-  Thomas  Jefferson,  b.  Oct.  24,  1822,  m. 
Frances  Bybee,  and  had  8  children — ]\Iary  Jane.  m.  first, 
Richard  Duerson,  issue  ;  second.  Dr.  D.  E.  Proctor,  no  issue  ; 
Joel  Tandy,  m.  Miss  Green,  and  has  one  child,  a  daughter  ; 


64  MEMORIAI^S  OF  THE  QUISENBERRY  FAMILY 


Minerva,  m.  Wm.  Thompson,  issue.  Laura,  m.  Christy  G. 
Bush,  issue  ;  Emma,  m.  Woodson  McCord  ;  Bettie,  m.  Charles 
Stewart,  issue;  Ilia;  Ella.  10.  John  H.,  b.  Oct.  12,  1818  ; 
m.  first  Patsey  Bennett ;  children — Bettie,  m.  Nelson  A. 
Nichols,  and  had  children,  of  whom  Lottie,  m.  W.  Fred 
Bartlett,  of  Lexington,  Ky.;  Joel  T.,  who  m.  Rachel  Sudduth, 

issue ;   Robert,  m.    Hunt,  issue ;    Thomas  Jefferson  • 

Moses.    John  H.  Quisenberry,  m.  second,  Mary  Laughlin,  and 

had  one  child,  Henry,  who  m.    Duckworth,  and  has 

children.  11.  Tandy,  b.  Nov.  16,  1816,  d.  Nov.  28,  1846. 
12.  Mary  L.,  b.  Dec.  19,  1820,  d.  June  5,  1830. 

5.  James  Harvey  Quisenberry,  b.  March  13,  1786 ;  m.  Lucy 
Thomas,  dan.  of  Jordan  Thomas,  of  Owen  county,  Ky.,  and 
Lucy  Violett,  his  wife,  died  Aug.  5,  1822.  Children  :  i.  Frances, 
b.  March  17,  1810;  m.  Nathaniel  M.  Ragland,  and  they 
settled  in  Missouri ;  and  among  their  children  are  Rev.  N.  M. 
Ragland,  of  Fayetteville,  Ark.,  and  Capt.  Jno.  M.  Ragland,  of 
Osceola,  Mo.,  who  has  one  son — Samuel  H.  Ragland.  2. 
Jane,  m.  Joseph  P.  Evans,  of  Henry  county,  Ky.  3.  Sarah, 
m.  a  Mr.  Clayton.  4.  Robert,  m.  Winnie  Clayton.  5.  Tandy, 
m.  Winnifred  Carter,  and  settled  in  Texas.  6.  James  Harvey, 
b.  1813  ;  m.  Elizabeth  Clayton,  and  settled  in  Grayson  county, 
Ky.  7.  Rev.  Wm.  H.  (Methodist  minister);  m.  Caroline 
Clayton,  and  had  issue ;  his  son,  Tandy  Quisenberry,  is  a 
prominent  tobacco  warehouseman  in  Louisville,  Ky.  (The 
three  Misses  Clayton  named  above  were  sisters.)  8.  Janet ; 
married. 

6.  Colby  Burris  Quisenberry.    (See  IV.) 

7.  Tandy  Quisenberry,  b.  Feb.  8,  1791  ;  m.  Peggy  Bush, 
and  they  had  19  children,  of  whom  the  following  16  grew 
up  and  married,  viz  :  i.  Jane,  m.  Willis  Elkin,  and  went  to 
Missouri ;  issue.  2.  Philip,  m.  Ann  Bush,  and  went  to 
Missouri ;  8  or  10  children.  3.  Thacker,  m.  ist.  Miss 
McMurtry,  i  child ;  2d,  Miss  Brockman,  i  child ;  3d, 
Pamelia  Mitchell,  8  children.  Among  his  children  is  Wm. 
P.  Quisenberry,  of  Mexico,  Mo.  4.  William,  m.  his  cousin, 
Frances  Quisenberry,  and  Philip  Quisenberry,  of  Mexico,  Mo., 


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65 


is  their  son.  5.  Jackson,  m.  and  went  to  Mo.  6.  Frances, 
m.  Thomas  Brockman.  7.  x\rmazinda,  m.  James  Hodgkin  ; 
4  children — Samuel,  Tandy  Q.,  Philip,  Armazinda.  8.  ]\Iary, 
m.  Pleasant  Gentry ;  issue.  9.  Mills,  m.  ]Miss  Huguely,  7  or 
8  children.  10.  Colby  Tandy,  m.  ist,  Mary  Weathers,  and 
had  issue;  m.  2d,  in  Missouri.  11.  Inskip,  m.  and  went  to 
Missouri.  12.  Narcissa,  m.  Jacob  Brockman;  issue.  13. 
Braxton,  m.  in  Missouri.  14.  Rhodes,  m.  Bettie  Woodford, 
8  children.  15.  Margaret,  m.  Peter  Evans,  7  or  8  children. 
16.  Roger,  m.  Mary  Hampton,  in  Missouri. 

8.  Roger  Quisenberry,  b.  Nov.  23,  1792  ;  m.  Polly  Eubank. 
He  served  in  the  W^ar  of  181 2,  and  was  twice  sheriff  of  Clark 
county;  15  children,  of  whom  the  following  9  grew  up  and 
were  married,  viz  :  i.  Ann,  m.  Enoch  Elkin,  and  had  several 
children  ;  one  daughter  m.  Chas.  W.  Capps,  another  m.  Phil. 
Quisenberry  (grandson  of  both  Roger  and  Tandy),  and  another 
m.  Charles  Haggard.  2.  Achilles,  m.  ist,  Mary  F.  Parrish  ; 
no  children  ;  m.  again  in  Texas  ;  issue.  3.  Frances,  m.  ist, 
Wm.  Quisenberry  (son  of  Tandy) ;  2  children  ;  m.  2d,  Milton 
Quisenberry  (son  of  Colby) ;  i  child — Ann  E.  who  m.  Pleas- 
ant J.  Conkwright  and  had  a  number  of  children  ;  m.  3d,  Jack- 
son Daniel,  and  had  3  children.  4.  Stephen,  m.  Jane  Bush,  and 
has  children.  5.  James,  m.  Margaret  Bush,  and  had  3  children  ; 
m.  2d,  Sallie  Reeves  ;  issue.  6.  William,  m.  Emerine  Hamp- 
ton ;  5  children  ;  m.  2d,  Martha  Custis  ^loore  ;  5  children. 
7.  Elizabeth,  m.  John  Bush,  and  had  i  child — Robert — who  m. 
Ann,  dau.  of  P^ielding  B.  Quisenberry,  and  left  issue.  8. 
Mary  Jane,  m.  Asa  Brockman ;  2  children.  9.  Tandy,  m.  Miss 
Fox,  and  has  children. 

9.  William  Fountain  Quisenberry,  b.  July  9,  1797  ;  m. 
Rachel  Ryan;  10  children,  viz  :  i.  James,  m.  Anzie  Moore; 
issue.  2.  Margaret,  m.  Phil  Hodgkin  ;  no  children.  3.  Sallie 
Ann,  m.  Zach.  Bush  ;  4  children,  of  whom  Ossie,  m.  Raleigh 
Sutherland ;  Wm.  E.,  m.  Catherine  Bush,  and  has  several 
children  :  Sallie,  m.  James  W.  Poynter  ;  i  child — Wiley  T.  4. 
Eloyd  T.,  m.  Mary  E.  Bush  ;  2  children — P.obert  and  Rachel. 
5.  William,  m.  Jane  Duly ;  no  children.    6.  iVngelina  S.,  m. 


66  MEMORIALS  OF  THE  QUISENBERRY  FAMII^Y 


Zacliariah  Crews  ;  no  children.  7.  Shelton,  m.  Mary  Jane 
Bybee ;  several  children.  8.  Emily,  m.  John  Eubank ;  i 
child — William  T. — m.  Cleo  Benton.  9,  Sophia,  m.  Stephen 
Vancleave  ;  3  children.     10.  Roger,  died  unmarried. 

10.  Mourning  Quisenberry,  m.  John  Haggard,  and  had  sev- 
eral children,  among  them  Clifton  Haggard  and  James  Hag- 
gard— the  latter  the  father  of  Sidney  A.,  Jeptha,  and  James  D. 
Haggard,  and  of  Nannie  Haggard,  who  m.  Wm.  F.  Tucker, 
and  their  daughter  m.  Ivce  Evans. 

11.  Jackson  Quisenberry,  b.  Dec.  16,  1799  ;  m.  a  Miss  Simp- 
son, and  settled  in  Pettis  county.  Mo.;  several  children, 
among  them  "  Zib,"  Colby  and  Clay  ;  Mollie,  who  ra.  M.  M. 
Tucker ;  Eliza,  who  m.  J.  T.  Williams,  and  Sallie,  who  m. 
Monroe  White. 

12.  Rhoda,  b.  Feb.  3,  1802  ;  m.  George  Fox  ;  issue. 

13.  Sallie  B.,  b.  July  31,  1805  ;  m.  Thomas  Smith  Ragland  ; 
issue. 

On  Dec.  24,  181 1,  Rev.  James  Quisenberry  was  married  to 
Chloe  Shipp,  who  bore  him  eleven  children,  making  twenty- 
four  by  the  two  wifes.    The  children  by  the  second  wife  were  : 

14.  15.  (Twins)  b.  Oct.  13,  1813  ;  Joseph  Harrison  Quisen- 
berry ni.  and  had  issue  ;  Letty  Quisenberry,  d.  July  28,  18 14. 

16.  Letitia  Quisenberry,  b.  Oct.  23,  181 4;  m.  Dr.  Peter 
Evans,  and  had  several  children,  among  them  Peter,  James, 
and  Dr.  Geo.  W.  Evans. 

17.  Eouis  Colby  Quisenberry,  b.  Jan.  18,  1816,  d.  Aug.  28, 
1844. 

18.  Kitty  Quisenberry,  b.  July  19,  181 7,  d.  Aug.  4,  1819. 

19.  Patsey  Quisenberry,  b.  March  3,  1819,  d.  Aug.  9,  1830. 

20.  Chloe  Quisenberry,  b.  Nov.  18,  1820,  d.  Jan.  6,  1821. 

21.  Sophia  A.  Quisenberry,  b.  Oct.  12,  182 1. 

22.  James  Harvey  Quisenberry  (second  son  of  that  name), 
b.  June  13,  1823  5  never  married. 

23.  George  W.  Quisenberry,  b.  Jan.  17,  1825,  ^'  J^^^  21, 
1842. 

24.  Polly  Ann  Quisenberry,  b.  July  28,  1829  5  ^-  J-  ^• 
Elkin,  and  had  one  son,  Scott,  who  died  unmarried,  and  two 


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daughters,  one  of  whom  married  James  Riitledge  and  the  other 
married  John  D.  Hunt. 

IV. 

Colby  Biirris  Qiiisenberry ^ 


son  of  Rev.  James  Quisenberry  and  Jane  Burris,  his  wife,  was 
b.  in  what  is  now  Clark  county,  Ky.,  on  July  7,  1788.  On 
Dec.  16,  1810,  he  was  m.  to  Lucy  Bush,'^  daughter  of  Francis 
Bush  (who  had  been  a  soldier  in  the  Revolution),  and 
Rachel  Martin,  his  wife,  dau.  of  John  Martin,  who  had  also 
been  a  Revolutionary  soldier.  Colby  Burris  Quisenberry  and 
his  wife  lived  for  a  number  of  years  in  Madison  county,  Ky., 
where  most  of  their  children  were  born  ;  but  later  they  moved 
to  Clark  county,  where  he  died  Dec.  31,  1870.  His  wife,  b. 
May  5,  1790,  d.  Dec.  2.  1872.  Their  children,  thirteen  in 
number,  were  as  follows  : 

1.  Louisa  Quisenberry,  b.  Sept.  29,  1811  ;  m.  David  Chenault 
on  Oct.  25,  1827.  They  settled  in  Tennessee  and  had  14 
children,  viz :  i.  John.  2.  Colby.  3.  David.  4.  James.  5. 
Harvey.  6.  Sallie  A.,  m.  Guthrie.  7.  Nancy,  m.  Martin.  8. 
Lucy,  m.  Barry.  9.  Frances,  m.  Tyree.  10.  Milton  Waller. 
II.  Maria  Louisa,  m.  Barry.  12.  William.  13.  Millard  Fill- 
more.  14.  Charles.    These  are  all  married. 

2.  Milton  Quisenberry,  b.  Nov.  10,  1813  ;  m.  Frances,  dau. 
of  Roger  Quisenberry  and  Polly  Eubanks,  his  wife,  on  Sept. 
13,  1838.  Three  children — Ann  E.,  m.  Pleasant  J.  Conk- 
wright ;  Sarah  Frances,  and  a  son  who  d.  in  infancy. 

3.  Sallie  Quisenberry,  b.  Feb.  26,  1815  ;  m.  Wm.  H.  Rag- 
land.  14  children,  viz  :  i.  Louisa.  2.  Catherine,  m.  ist,  Wm. 
Burris  ;  2d,  Philip  Elliott ;  issue  by  each.    3.  Patsey  E.,  m. 

*  The  arms  of  the  Bush  family  are  :  Argent  on  a  fesse,  between  3  boars 
passant  sable,  a  fleur  de  lys  between  2  eagles  displayed  or.  Crest. — A  goat's 
head  erased  argent,  armed  or. 


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MEMORIALvS  OF  THE  QUISENBERRY  FAMILY 


Roger  Brookin,  issue.  4.  Colby  Q.,  m.  Virginia  Fant,  in 
Goliad,  Texas,  issue.'  5.  Ivucy  Ann,  m.  Enoch  Haggard,  issue. 
6.  Nathaniel.  7.  Klkanah.  8.  Milton,  m.  lyouisa  Harris,  issue. 
9.  Mary  Mildred.  10.  Sarah  Frances,  m.  Samuel  Moore,  issue. 
II.  William  T.,  m.  Wade,  issue.  12.  John  Martin,  m.  Bird 
Ragland,  issue.  13.  James  F.,  m.  Fant,  issue.  14.  d.  in 
infancy. 

4.  Rachel  Jane  Quisenberry,  b.  June  29,  1816 ;  m.  Thomas 
Jenkins  in  1836,  and  had  8  children,  all  of  whom  except  the 
first  married  and  had  issue,  viz:  Virgil  T.;  I^ucy  J.;  Marie 
Louise;  Colby  M.;  SallieA.;  James  Q.;  Leslie  T.;  Rachel  B. 

5.  Fielding  Bush  Quisenberry,  b.  June  6,  1818  ;  m.  Oct.  8, 
1839,  Rebecca  J.  Elkin ;  9  children,  viz  :  i.  Ezekiel  Colby, 
m.  in  Texas.  2.  Claudius  V.,  m.  in  Texas.  3.  Ann  S.,  m. 
Robert  Bush.  4.  Buford  A.  5.  Frances  T.,  m.  Bartlett  S. 
Haggard.  6.  Sidney  A.  7.  Roger  M.  8.  Charles  C,  m. 
Nannie  Evans.    9.  Walter  E.,  m.  Nettie  Haggard. 

6.  Eucy  Quisenberry,  b.  Aug  2,  1820;  m.  Robert  Elkin  on 
Oct.  9,  1839,  and  settled  in  Tennessee  ;  4  children — i.  Milton 
S.,  m.  and  left  issue.  2.  Joyce  A.,  married.  3.  Colby  W., 
married.    4.  Sarah  E.,  m.  Henry  Guthrie. 

7.  Colby  Burris  Quisenberry,  Jr.,  b.  Aug.  31,  1822  ;  m. 
July  15,  1847,  to  Sallie  Tribble  ;  6  children — i.  Ellen.  2. 
Eucy  Belle,  m.  Blackwell  Carr.  3.  Madison.  4.  Dudley  T. 
5.  Eliza  Moss,  m.  Samuel  Pinkerton.    6.  Colby  M. 

8.  James  Francis  Quisenberry  (see  V.). 

9.  Roger  Tandy  Quisenberry,  b.  Feb.  27,  1826;  d.  unmar- 
ried, Oct.  3,  1892. 

10.  Joyce  Duncan  Quisenberry,  b.  March  12,  1828  ;  m. 
Joseph  Helm  Withers  on  May  12,  1849  5  ^'^  children — i.  Kitty. 
2.  Roger  W.  3.  Eucy,  m.  Edgar  M.  Hultz.  4.  Mariana. 
5.  Aileen,  m.  Manlius  E.  Hultz.  6.  Sallie,  m.  Edward  C. 
Gamble.  7.  Susan,  m.  John  W.  Gamble.  8.  Ella  D.  9.  Jos- 
ephine.   10.  Electra  Helm. 

11.  Elkanah  Elkin  Quisenberry,  b.  July  15,  1830,  and 
Nov.  6,  1868,  m.  Ellen  Thornton  ;  7  children — i.  Florence  B,, 
m.  T.  R.  Weaver.    2.  Arthur  T.,  m.  Florence  Hornbeak,  and 


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has  one  child — Ruth.  3.  Eugene.  4.  Charles  W.  5.  r^Iattie 
Iv.,  m.  E.  L.  Bodenhamer.  6.  Grace  E.,  m.  R.  E.  Umphres. 
7.  Gertrude. 

12.  Xewton  Oiiisenberry,  b.  Jan.  26,  1832,  d.  Dec.  9,  1836. 

13.  John  r^Iartin  Quisenberry,  b.  April  26,  1833  ;  m.  Sarah 
Moore  on  Oct.  25,  1S59,  and  they  had  nine  children — Cora, 
Ivanora,  Andley,  and  six  others. 

And  so  Colby  Burris  Quisenberry  and  Lucy,  his  wife,  had 
13  children  and  88  grandchildren. 


V. 

James  Francis  Qjiisenberry^ 

eighth  child  of  Colby  Burris  Quisenberry,  was  born  in  ]\Iad- 
ison  county,  Ky.,  Oct.  15,  1824,  ^^^^  ^^^^  Clark  county, 
Ky.,  Feb.  3,  1877.    On  Oct.  14,  1847,  Emily  Cameron 

Chenault  idau.  of  Anderson  Chenault  and  Emily  Cameron, 
his  Avife),  and  they  had  four  children,  as  follows  : 

1.  Emma  Alice  Quisenberry,  b.  in  Clark  county,  Ky.,  Oct.  26, 
1848  ;  m.  Joseph  Addison  Hinkle  on  June  21,  1870,  and  they 
had  three  children — i.  Emma  May  Hinkle,  b.  May  18,  1S71  ; 
m.  J.  D.  ^IcDonald,  of  ^IcKenzie.  Tenn.,  and  has  one  child, 
Eewise  Hinkle  ^McDonald,  b.  July  5,  1897.  2.  James  ^larvin 
Hinkle,  b.  Xov.  11,  1873.  3-  Lewise  Hinkle,  b.  Dec.  6, 
1880,  d.  August  25,  1887. 

2.  Anderson  Chenault  Quisenberry,  b.  near  Winchester, 
Ky.,  Oct.  26,  1850,  and  now  (1900)  lives  in  Washington, 
D.  C.  Was  married  May  i,  1879,  Springfield,  Ohio,  to 
Corinna  Broomhall"^  (b.  Oct.  3,  1858),  dau.  of  Webb  Broom- 
hall  and  Adelaide  Finkle,  his  wife — and  they  have  four 
children — i.  Adelaide  Corinna  Quisenberry,  b.  in  Lexington, 


*The  arms  of  the  Broomhall  family  are:  A  lion  rampant,  or:  tail  forked- 
Crest — a  lion  rampant,  or." 


70  MKMORIAI^S  OF  THE  QUISENBERRY  FAMILY 


Ky.,  July  lo,  1882.  2.  James  Francis  Quisenberry,  b.  in 
Lexington,  Ky.,  July  10,  1886.  3.  Colby  Broonihall  Quisen- 
berry, b.  in  Lexington,  Ky.,  Dec.  16,  1888.  4.  Florence 
Emily  Quisenberry,  b.  in  Washington,  D.  C,  June  8,  1895. 

3.  Waller  Quisenberry,  b.  in  Clark  county,  Ky.  (where  he 
now  lives),  Jan.  12,  1853;  m.  Dec.  12,  1894,  Emma  Lisle, 
dau.  of  James  Daniel  Lisle  and  Nancy  Hampton,  his  wife ; 
3  children — i.  Mary  Anderson  Quisenberry,  b.  Sept.  17,  1896. 
2.  David  Waller  Quisenberry,  b.  June  9,  1898.  3.  Ethel 
Lisle  Quisenberry,  b.  April  24,  1900. 

4.  James  Francis  Quisenberry,  Jr.,  b.  in  Clark  county,  Ky., 
Jan.  23,  1855,  and  died  there  Feb.  4,  1880,  unmarried. 


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ADDITIONAL  GENEALOGICAL  MEMORANDA. 


"  Here  a  little  and  there  a  little.^'' — Isaiah,  xxviii,  10. 


Under  tlie  above  heading  there  has  been  collected  a  number  of  miscellaneous 
items  of  information  relative  to  the  families  considered  in  my  former  work, 
Oenealogical  Memoranda  of  the  Quisenberry  Family  and  Other  Families,  pub- 
lished in  1897.  These  miscellaneous  items  have  been  gathered  since  the  pub- 
lication of  that  book. 


QUISENBEREY. 

There  are  several  unusual  forms  of  the  name  Quisenberry.  Several  years  ago 
there  was  a  Rev,  Mr.  Chrissenberry,  a  Presbyterian  minister,  living  in  Mc- 
Lemoresville,  Tenn.,  who  traced  back  to  Virginia.  Prof.  W.  A.  Crusenberry, 
of  Iowa  College,  is  a  young  astronomer  of  rising  fame,  who  traces  back  to  Vir- 
ginia, through  Ohio.  There  are  families  spelling  their  name  "  Cushenberry  " 
(the  vulgar  pronunciation  of  Quisenberry),  living  in  Allen  and  Hardin  coun- 
ties, Ky.,  in  the  State  of  Kansas,  and  in  other  places.  Prof.  David  Christen- 
berry,  of  Alabama  University,  writes  that  his  family  has  been  settled  in  North 
Carolina  for  a  century,  and  that  they  went  to  that  State  from  New  York,  and 
are  of  Dutch  origin.  There  is  hardly  a  doubt  that  they  also  are  descendants  of 
the  German  family  of  Questenberg,  but  they  evidently  came  to  America 
directly  from  Germany, 

The  following  Quisenberrys  served  in  the  Union  Army  from  Kentucky  during 
the  Civil  War,  as  shown  by  the  book  Union  Regiments  of  Kentucky,  com^jiled 
by  Thomas  Speed  and  others,  and  printed  in  1897,  viz  : 

Owen  Quisenberry,  corporal,  Co.  I,  3d  Ky.  Cavalry. 

James  H.  Quisenberry,  private,  Co.  I,  3d  Ky.  Cavalry. 

James  Quisenberry,  private,  Co.  I,  3d  Ky.  Veteran  Cavalry. 

[Note. — The  above  three  were  from  Grayson  county,  Ky. ,  and  are  the  grand- 
sons of  James  Harvey  Quisenberry,  of  Owen  county,  Ky.,  and  great-grandsons 
of  Rev.  James  Quisenberry,  of  Clark  county,  Ky.] 

Lieut.  John  H,  Quisenberry,  Co.  C,  12th  Ky.  Cavalry. 

Reuben  T.  Quisenberry,  sergeant,  Co.  C,  12th  Ky„  Cavalry. 

[Note. — The  above  tw^o  lived  in  Christian  county,  Ky..  and  were  grandsons  of 
Moses  Quisenberry,  son  of  Aaron  Quisenberry,  of  Orange  county,  Va.] 

Louis  Colby  Quisenberry,  private,  Co.  A,  lith  Ky.  Cavalry.  He  lived  in 
Montgomery  county,  Ky.,  and  was  the  son  of  Joseph  Harrison  Quisenberry,  and 
grandson  of  Rev.  James  Quisenberry. 

William  Quishenbury,  private,  Co.  A,  3d  Ky.  Infantry.  Unidentified.  He 
enlisted  at  Camp  Dick  Robinson,  Kentucky,  in  the  summer  of  1861. 


72  MEMORIAI.S  OK  THE  QUISKNBERRY  EAMILY 


For  a  partial  list  of  the  Quisenberrys  who  served  in  the  Confederate  Army 
from  Kentucky,  see  the  former  work,  Genealogical  Memoranda,  etc. 

The  following  served  in  the  Spanish- American  War  in  1898,  and  there  may 
have  been  many  others  : 

H.  L.  Quisenberry,  of  New  Orleans,  La.,  Co.  H,  1st  U.  S.  Vol.  Cavalry 
("  Roosevelt's  Rough  Riders  ")•  One  of  his  knee-caps  was  shot  off  at  the  battle 
of  San  Juan,  Cuba. 

H.  M.  Quesenberry,  musician,  4th  Virginia  Vol.  Infantry. 

History  of  the  Lindsays  of  America,  page  258  :  "  Nicholas  Lindsay,  of  Scott 
county,  Ky.,  married  Miss  Cresenberry.  .  .  .  Vachel  Lindsay,  brother  of  Nicho- 
las, married  Miss  Annie  Cresenberry,"  etc. 

The  Bowies  and  their  kindred,  page  288  :  "  Issue  of  John  Catlett  Bowie,  of 
Spottsylvania  county,  Va. ,  and  his  first  wife,  Jane  Timberlake  :  Lucy  Ann  Bowie, 
b.  Mch.,  1817,  m.  July  8,  1840,  to  John  L.  Qusenberry.  Issue:  John  James 
Qusenberry,  b.  1841 ;  Wm.  Bowie  Qusenberry,  b.  1844  ;  m.  Nov.,  1876,  to  Emma 
Fitzhugh  ;  d.  1887.  Children  :  Mary  Brockenborough  Qusenberry,  b.  1879  ; 
Wm.  Fitzhugh  Qusenberry,  b.  1881." 


Inscriptions  on  the  tombs  of  Colby  Burris  Quisenberry  and  Lucy  Bush 
Quisenberry,  his  wife,  at  the  family  graveyard  one  and  a  half  miles  south  of 
Winchester,  Ky.,  on  the  Boonesboro'  turnpike  : 

C.  B.  QUISENBERRY,  Se.  , 
Born  July  7,  1788. 
Died  Dec.  31,  1870. 
Aged  82  years,  5  months  and  24  days. 

Unveil  thy  bosom,  faithful  tomb, 

Take  our  dear  father  to  thy  trust, 
And  give  these  sacred  ashes  room 

Till  God  shall  call  him  from  the  dust. 


LUCY  B.  QUISENBERRY, 
Born  May  5,  1790. 
Died  Dec.  2,  1872. 
Aged  82  years,  6  months  and  24  days. 

To  angel  form  thy  spirit's  grown, 

Thy  God  has  claimed  thee  as  his  own  ; 

In  Paradise  thou  sharest  bliss 

Ne'er  to  be  found  in  worlds  like  this. 

[Note. — There  is  a  mistake  in  the  calculation  of  the  age  of  Lucy  B.  Quisen- 
berry, above.    It  should  be  82  years,  7  months  and  27  days.  J 


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The  following  is  the  "Mayflower"  descent  of  Mrs.  Lottie  Nichols  Bartlett, 
of  Lexington,  Ky.,  who  is  the  granddaughter  of  John  H.  Quisenberry,  great- 
granddaughter  of  Joel  Quisenberry,  and  great-great-granddaughter  of  Rev. 
James  Quisenberry,  of  Clark  county,  Ky. ,  viz  : 

1.  William  Mullins,  m.  Alice  . 

2.  Priscilla  Mullins,  m.  John  Alden.' 

3.  Elizabeth  Alden,  m.  Wm.  Pabodie. 

4.  Wm.  Pabodie,  m.  Judith  . 

5.  Rachel  Pabodie,  m.  Joshua  Stoddard. 
0.  Rachel  Stoddard,  m.  Walter  Nichols. 

7.  Joshua  Nichols,  m.  Hannah  Coggeshall. 

8.  Walter  Nichols,  m.  Elizabeth  Thompson. 

9.  Nelson  Nichols,  m.  Bettie  Quisenberry. 

10.  Lottie  Nichols,  m.  W.  Fred.  Bartlett. 

11.  Nelson  N.  Bartlett. 


QUESENBERRY. 

Quite  a  number  of  the  members  of  the  family,  mainly  the  descendants  of  the 
first  William  Qnesenbury,  of  Westmoreland  county,  Va.,  spell  their  name 
Qiiesenberry.  Most  of  these  live  in  Virginia,  though  there  are  some  also  in 
Kentucky,  Missouri,  Texas,  and  perhaps  elsewhere.  To  this  branch  of  the 
family  belonged  Catherine  Quesenberry  (great-great-granddaughter  of  the  first 
William),  who  married  Basil  Rigg,  and  her  grandson,  Edward  Mayes,  of  Oxford, 
Miss.,  married  a  daughter  of  Hon.  L.  Q.  C.  Lamar  ;  and  also  Nicholas  Quesen- 
berry, of  King  George  county,  Va.,  who  married  Rose  Green,  of  Georgetown, 
D.  C,  one  of  whose  sisters  married  a  son  of  Iturbide,  Emperor  of  Mexico. 

Dr.  W.  D.  Quesenberry,  of  King  George  county,  Va.,  has  always  been  a 
prominent  man,  and  has  served  a  number  of  times  in  the  Virginia  Legislature. 
His  grandfather,  James  Quesenberry,  married  Ann  Brown  in  1794,  and  these 
were  also  the  ancestors  of  Jos.  L.  Quesenberry,  an  architect,  now  living  in 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and  also  of  Samuel  Quesenberry,  of  Ozeana,  Va.,  and  of 
Charles  Quesenberrj'-,  of  Washington,  D.  C.  This  branch  of  the  family  is  still 
numerous  in  Virginia. 

L  M.  Quesenberry,  of  Boyle  county,  Ky.,  is  a  son  of  Abel  Quesenberry, 
born  1815,  who  was  the  son  of  Page  Quesenberry,  born  in  1780,  who  was  the 
son  of  James  Quesenberry,  of  Fauquier  or  Culpeper  county,  Va.  This  James 
Quesenberry  had  also  a  son  named  Zaccheus  Quesenberry,  who  in  early  times 
settled  in  Barren  county,  Ky.  He  was  a  Methodist  preacher,  and  in  1840  left 
Kentucky  and  settled  in  Richmond,  Mo.,  where  he  preached  constantly  every 
Sunday  from  that  time  until  within  two  weeks  of  his  death,  wnich  occurred  in 
1864,  when  he  was  95  years  of  age. 

The  St.  Louis  Globe-Democrat  of  Aug.  18,  1895,  says:  "  One  of  the  oldest 
men  in  Ray  county  is  David  H.  Quesenberry,  who  was  born  in  Fauquier  county, 
Va.,  Dec.  25,  1805.  When  two  years  of  age  he  went  with  his  parents  to  Barren 
county,  Ky.,  where  he  resided  until  he  was  29  years  old.    He  came  to  Missouri 


74  MEMORIALS  OF  THE  QUISENBERRY  FAMILY 


in  1835,  settling  in  Richmond,  where  he  has  resided  ever  since.  During  his 
residence  there  he  served  five  years  as  county  clerk,  twenty-five  years  as  justice 
of  the  peace,  and  four  years  as  postmaster.  Mr.  Quesenberry  was  married  to 
Miss  Lucinda  Warder,  in  Lafayette  county,  Mo.,  in  1830.  He  made  the  trip 
from  Barren  county,  Ky.,  on  horseback,  and  he  and  his  bride  made  the  return 
journey  in  the  same  way.  He  lived  with  his  wife  sixty-one  years,  and  in  all  that 
time  they  were  never  apart  sixty-one  days.  He  is  still  living  in  the  house  he 
built  fifty-seven  years  ago.  He  has  lived  in  Richmond  longer  than  any  other 
man  or  woman  now  living,  and  has  voted  at  every  election  for  State,  county^ 
township,  and  city  officers  for  a  period  of  sixty  years.  Himself  and  wife  gave 
the  first  golden  wedding  anniversary  ever  celebrated  in  Eay  county.  Mrs. 
Quesenberry  died  in  1890,  since  which  time  '  Uncle  Davy,'  as  every  one  calls 
him,  has  made  his  home  with  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Aaron  Conrow,  who  is  the 
widow  of  the  late  Aaron  Conrow,  a  member  of  the  Confederate  Congress.  Mr. 
Quesenberry  has  been  an  ardent  member  of  the  Methodist  Church  all  his  life. 
He  assisted  in  building  the  first  church  in  Richmond,  and  organized  the  first 
Sunday-school,  of  which  he  was  superintendent  for  twenty-five  years.  He  is 
in  excelleDt  health." 

The  St.  Louis  Post-Dispatch  of  April  2,  1900,  says:  "The  Missouri  branch 
of  the  Quisenberry  family  furnished  the  United  States  with  soldiers  during  the 
Mexican  war.  One  of  these  was  John  Quisenberry.  He  figured  in  one  of  the 
most  tragic  events  in  the  war  that  made  Texas  a  part  of  the  Union. 

"  While  skirmishing,  a  party  of  St.  Louis  county  boys,  including  Quisenberry 
and  a  member  of  the  Lackland  family,  fell  into  the  hands  of  Mexican  guerrillas. 
After  being  tortured,  Quisenberry  and  Lackland  were  burned  at  the  stake  before 
the  eyes  of  their  horrified  companions.  A  relieving  party  beat  off  the  guerrillas 
befere  they  had  time  to  add  more  victims  to  their  sacrifice.  The  ashes  of  the 
murdered  Americans  were  brought  back  to  their  St.  Louis  county  homes.  The 
older  generation  of  residents  in  the  county  still  remember  the  impressive  fune- 
ral." 


CHENAULT. 

Vol.  VI,  Virginia  Historical  Society's  Collections  (Gilmer  papers)  page  137, 
shows  that  206  citizens  of  Albemarle  county,  Va.  (among  them  being  Thomas 
Jefferson,  William  CMnault,  Henry  Mullins,  John  Tandy,  William  Tandy,  Sr., 
Peter  Burrus,  and  Robert  Burrus),  took  the  following 

"  Oath  of  allegiance  to  the  Commonwealth  of  Virginia  : 

We  whose  names  are  hereunto  subscribed  do  swear  that  we  renounce  and 
refuse  all  allegiance  to  George  the  Third,  King  of  Great  Britain,  his  heirs  and 
successors,  and  that  I  will  be  faithful  and  bear  true  allegiance  to  the  Common- 
wealth of  Virginia  as  a  free  and  independent  State,  and  that  I  will  not  at  any 
time  do  or  cause  to  be  done  any  matter  or  thing  that  will  be  prejudicial  or 
injurious  to  the  freedom  or  independence  thereof  as  declared  by  Congress ; 
and  also  that  I  will  discover  and  make  known  to  some  one  Justice  of  the  Peace 
for  the  said  State  all  treasons  or  traitorous  conspiracies  which  I  now  or  here- 


IX  GERMANY,  EXGLAXD 


AXD  AMERICA. 


75 


after  shall  know  to  be  against  this  or  any  of  the  United  States  of  America.  So 
help  me  God." 

[Note. — This  paper  is  dated  April  21,  1779.  but  the  editor  of  the  Collections, 
Mr.  E.  A.  Brock,  thinks  that  all  but  the  three  last  names  (which  do  not  include 
any  of  the  seven  given  above)  were  signed  in  1776.] 

The  same  book,  page  85,  gives  the  name  of  Josiah  Bush  in  a  list  of  Albemarle 
volunteers  mustered  in  L775 :  and  on  page  153,  Gabriel  Maupin,  of  Albemarle 
county,  is  mentioned  as  the  keeper  of  the  magazine  at  Williamsburg  during 
the  Kevolutionary  AYar. 

The  clerk  of  the  Essex  county,  Ya.,  court,  writes  :  "  The  division  of  the 
estate  of  Howlett  Chenault,  recorded  in  1739,  refers  to  his  son,  Stephen  Chenault. 
My  index  goes  back  to  1739  only,  while  the  records  of  wills  and  deeds,  &c., 
begin  in  1656." 

Judge  Eandall  M.  Ewing,  of  Franklin,  Teun.,  writes  (Jan.  5,1900;:  ''I 
enclose  you  a  transcript  from  the  family  bible  of  my  wife's  grandfather,  which 
contains  all  that  I  know  of  my  branch  of  the  Chenault  or  '  Chen-Haut  '  family, 
which  in  French  means  '  tall  oak.'  The  record  I  send  you  is  authentic  as  far 
as  it  goes.  I  know  that  the  origiDal  emigrant,  Stephen  Chenault,  settled  at 
Monikin  Town,  Powhatan  county,  Ya.,  and  that  he  had  sons  and  daughters 
other  than  John,  who  was  my  wife's  immediate  ancestor  :  and  that  several  of 
these  scattered  abroad  in  the  tidewater  counties  of  Yirginia,  and  some  of  them 
subsequently  emigrated  to  Kentucky.  That  one  of  these  sons  was  named 
William  I  have  little  doubt,  as  John  and  Barbara  had  sons  named  William  and 
Stephen  also.  No  branch  of  the  family  known  to  me  is  without  a  William. 
My  wife  is  a  daughter  of  James  E.  McGavock,  and  his  wife,  Louise  Chenault, 
a  daughter  of  Stephen  Chenault  and  Eleanor  Eodgers,  his  wife.  My  wife's 
great-grandfather,  James  McGavock,  of  Yirginia.  had  the  commission  of  captain 
under  George  III  before  the  Eevolutionary  War,  and  was  one  of  the  signers  of 
the  '  Fincastle  Eesolutions,'  which  antedate  all  other  declarations  of  independ- 
ence. My  own  grandfather,  Hugh  McGavock,  of  '  Max  Meadows,'  Ya.,  was  a 
Eevolutionary  officer. 

*'  John  Chenault,  a  son  of  Stephen  Chenault,  the  Huguenot  emigrant,  moved 
from  Monikintown  to  Essex  county,  Ya.,  on  the  Eappahannock ;  and  there,  on 
Feb.  1,  1781,  he  married  Barbara  Burke.  This  John  Chenault  was  born  Nov. 
22,  1754.  His  eldest  son,  Stephen,  from  whom  my  children  are  descended, 
was  born  Nov.  2,  1781 :  and  on  the  day  he  was  18  he  married  Mary  Eleanor 
Eodgers,  daughter  of  John  Eodgers,  of  Kentucky,  who  was  a  cousin  of  John 
C.  Calhoun,  of  South  Carolina.  Nancj',  another  daughter  of  John  Eodgers 
married  Felix  Grundy,  United  States  Senator  from  Tennessee.  Another 
daughter,  Sallie  Doherty,  married  Eandall  McGavock,  the  first  clerk  of  the 
Federal  Court  for  the  Middle  Division  of  Tenneseee,  receiving  his  appointment 
from  his  life-long  friend.  Gen.  Andrew  Jackson. 

"The  children  of  Stephen  Chenault  and  Mary  E.  Eodgers  were  :  Felix  E. 
Chenault,  b.  July  2,  1804,  m.  Ann  Trigg,  of  Sumner  county,  Tenn.:  Eliza  G. 
Chenault,  b.  July  6,  1806,  m.  Moses  Woodfin,  then  of  Trenton,  Tenn.;  John 
Eodgers  Chenault,  b.  Nov.  9,  1808,  m.  Martha  Staples,  of  Meade  county,  Ky., 


76  MEMORlAtS  OF  THE  OUISENBERRY  FAMILY 


and  moved  to  Missouri,  where  lie  was  a  distinguished  lawyer  and  judge,  and  d. 
near  Gonzales,  Tex.,  during  the  Civil  War;  Catherine  Chenault,  b.  Jan.  29, 
1810,  d.  in  Missouri,  unmarried ;  Louisa  Caroline  Chenault  (my  wife's  mother), 
b.  Aug.  9,  1813,  and  Nov.  1,  1832,  m.  her  cousin,  James  K.  McGavock,  son  of 
Randall  McGavock  above  mentioned  ;  Nancy  M.  Chenault,  b.  Aug.  16,  1815,  d. 
in  Missouri,  unmarried,  and  William  McGavock  Chenault,  b.  May  19,  1819,  m. 
Emily  Shannon  on  June  30,  1841. 

"  We  now  return  to  the  other  children  of  John  Chenault,  son  of  Stephen 
Chenault,  the  Huguenot  emigrant,  of  Monikintown.  They  were  :  Lucy  Ellen 
Chenault,  b.  April  25,  1783,  m.  James  Nail,  of  Bardstown,  Ky.;  Thomas  Che- 
nault, b.  Jan.  24,  1786  ;  William  Chenault,  b.  June  20,  1788,  became  a  physi- 
cian and  went  to  the  Island  of  Cuba,  where  he  m.  a  Spanish  lady,  Madame 
Josefa  ,  and  d.  there  ;  John  Chenault,  b.  Dec.  20,  1790;  Barbara  Che- 
nault, b.  March  16,  1793,  m.  W.  R.  Hynes,  of  Bardstown,  Ky.;  Catherine  Che- 
nault, b.  Sept.  2,  1795,  m.  her  cousin,  Wm.  Burke,  of  Bardstown,  Ky.;  Eliza- 
beth Chenault,  b.  April  22,  1798,  m.  John  Wesley  Ogden,  of  New  York,  one  of 
the  claimants  of  the  famous  Ogden  estate,  and  James  B.  Chenault,  b.  Nov.  9, 
1803,  m.  Evaline  Hudson,  in  Jasper  county.  Mo. 

*'  The  family  of  John  and  Barbara  Chenault  were  all  Presbyterians,  holding 
the  Calvinist  faith  of  their  ancestors  of  Languedoc,  near  Nimes,  France.  It 
has  cost  me  much  time  and  patience  to  gather  these  genealogical  statistics." 

Miss  Sallie  L.  Yewell,  of  Owensboro',  Ky.,  writes  (Jan.  27,1900):  "Lucy 
Ellen  Chenault,  who  married  James  F.  Nail,  of  Bardstown,  Ky.,  was  my  great- 
grandmother.  My  mother's  maiden  name  was  Lucy  Ellen  Nail,  and  her  father 
was  James  Burke  Nail.  My  father,  Harrison  Yewell,  was  in  the  Confederate 
army,  and  is  buried  in  Catoosa  county,  Ga  The  name  Yewell  is  also  frequently 
spelled  Ewell,  and  I  do  not  know  which  is  right." 

The  following  are  the  coats  of  arms  of  the  two  branches  of  the  Cheneau,  or 
Chenault  family  (these  being  two  forms  of  one  name)  in  France,  viz  : 

Cheneau  of  Poitou,  Berry  and  Tours — D'azur  seme  de  besant  de  argent ;  au 
Chevron  d'or,  brochant  sur  le  tout. 

Cheneau  of  Lorraine — De  azur  a  trois  pois  de  or. 


CAMERON. 

Burke's  Landed  Gentry  snys  :  "The  surname  of  Cameron  is  of  great  antiquity 
in  Scotland,  and  in  ancient  times  was  variously  written,  viz  :  Cameron,  Cambron, 
Cambrun.  The  Camerons  have  a  tradition  among  them  that  they  are  descended 
from  a  younger  son  of  the  royal  family  of  Denmark,  who  assisted  at  the  restora- 
tion of  King  Francis  II.,  in  the  year  404  ;  but  it  is  more  probable  that  they  are 
of  the  aborigines  of  the  ancient  Scots  or  Caledonians  who  first  planted  the 
country," 


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The  following  are  the  Cameron 
Arms  : — Gules,  three  bars,  or. 

Crest : — A  dexter  arm  embowered  in  armor,  the  hand  grasping  a  sword  :  all 
proper. 

Supporters  : — Two  savages  wreathed  about  the  loins,  each  holding  over  his 
shoulder  a  pole-axe  :  all  proper. 
Motto  :  Pro  rege  et  patria. 


FINKLE. 

While  it  is  known  that  three  of  the  sons  of  Dr.  George  Finkle,  of  Dutchess 
county,  N.  Y.,  fought  for  the  King  in  the  Eevolutiouary  War.  there  has  always 
been  a  tradition  that  there  were  other  sons  who  fought  for  American  independ- 
ence, and  remained  in  America  when  the  other  brothers  went  to  Canada  at  the 
close  of  the  war.  This  tradition  is  borne  out  by  the  following  data,  condensed 
from  Munsell's  American  Ancestry — especially  so  when  it  is  remembered  that 
Columbia  and  Dutchess  are  adjoining  counties.  The  following  are  the  ex- 
tracts : 

Abram  Finkle,  of  West  Taghanick.  Columbia  county,  X.  Y.,  b.  18 (m. 
Catherine  Finkle)  son  of  Frederick  G.  Finkle,  of  West  Taghanic,  b.  1781  (m, 
Catherine  Pulver),  son  of  George  Finkle,  of  Aucram.  b.  175-1:,  d.  183-4  (m. 
Hannah  Dull),  whose  father  was  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Pine  Plains.  Dutchess 
county,  N.  Y. 

Alvin  H.  Finkle,  of  East  Taghanic,  son  of  George  Finkle,  of  same,  b.  1815 
(m.  Catherine  Lown),  son  of  Joseph  G.  Finkle,  of  Ancram  and  Taghanic, 
b.  17S6,  d.  1366  m.  Nancy  Peck  in  1812;,  son  of  George  Finkle.  of  Ancram, 
above. 

Ebenezer  Finkle,  of  Hillsdale,  and  George  Finkle,  of  East  Taghanick— sons 
of  Joseph  G.  Finkle.  of  Ancram  and  Taghanick.  above. 

Frederick  Finkle,  of  Hudson,  son  of  Frederick  Finkle.  of  Suydam  (m.  Rachel 
Dubois),  son  of  Frederick  G.  Finkle.  of  AVest  Taghanic.  above. 

John  George  Finkle  and  Washington  Finkle,  of  Ancram — sons  of  George 
G.  Finkle,  of  Gallatin  (m.  Mary  Kilmer),  son  of  George  Finkle,  of  Ancram, 
above. 

Theodore  Finkle.  of  AVest  CoiDake,  son  of  John  G.  Finkle.  of  Ancram,  b. 
1793,  d.  1873  Cm.  Almira  Kilmer),  son  of  George  Finkle,  of  Ancram,  above. 

[Note. — It  may  be  well  to  state  that  recent  letters  to  several  of  these  Finkles 
failed  to  elicit  responses.] 


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MEMORIALS  OF  THE  QUISENBERRY  FAMILY 


THE  DOCUMENTS. 


"  Tell  ye,  your  cliildren  of  it,  and' let  your  cJiildren  tell  their  children,  and  their 
children  another  generation.'''' — Joel  i,  3. 


^I^e  following  are  copies  of  the  documents  received  from  Germany  and 
Engl^l^  relative  to  the  family  of  Questenberg,  Questenbery,  etc.  There  are 
also  given  in  Subdivision  III,  copies  of  documents  received  relative  to  English 
people  of  names  somewhat  similar  to  Quisenberry,  etc. 


1418,  Feb.  14  and  Oct.  22.  (From  the  records  of  the  City  of  Lubeck,  VI,  93, 
in  the  Cologne  Archives).  Copy  of  the  judgment  of  the  Magistrates  of 
Loudon,  England,  exempting  the  Hanseatic  merchants  (among  them 
Tielmann  Questenberg)  from  the  new  duty  demanded  of  them  by  the 
revenue  officers. 

1424.  (From  the  City  records  of  Cologne.  Kecords  of  Citizens,  C,  655,  folio 
30a).  Tielman  Questenberg  is  accepted  as  a  citizen  of  the  City  of 
Cologne. 

1427,  Dec.  3.  (Knipping's  City  Accounts  of  Cologne,  I,  99,  No.  29).  Tielmann 
Questenberg  pays  12  Khenish  florins  for  citizenship  in  the  City  of 
Cologne. 

1432,  Feb.  6.    (Cologne  Archives :  Recorded  Communications,  15,  page  64. 

Letter  book  13,  3.)  Power  of  attorney  by  Tilman  Questenberg  to 
Bertouldus  Questenberg,  concerning  ships  merchandise  saved  in 
England. 

1433,  Jan.  4.     (Von  der  Rapp,  Hanse  Agreements,  I,  p.   Ill)  Dantzig  to 

Wismar :    Mentions  Hermann  Questenberge,  citizen  of  Dantzig. 

1434,  April  8.    (Col.  Arch.,  Rec.  Com.,  15,  81,  Letter  book  XIV,  1).  Cologne 

to  Dortmund  :  Call  of  Tidem  Questenberg  concerning  judgment  against 
Engell  von  Harpen. 

1435,  (Ennen's  History  of  Cologne,  III,  692).     Tilman  Questenberg  and 

others  who  came  with  a  ship's  load  of  various  merchandise  from 
England,  were  attacked  in  1435,  near  Middleburg,  in  Zealand,  and 
robbed. 


I, 


GERMAN  DOCUMENTS. 


IN  GERMANY,  ENGLAND  AND  AMERICA. 


79 


1435,  Dec.  15.  (Col.  Arch.,  Rec.  Com.  XVII,  Letter  book  XIV,  105).  Power 
of  attorney  from  Tilman  Questenberch  and  others,  to  Johan  von 
Dornek  and  Gobelinus  Marte,  etc. 

1437,  Feb.  15.  (Knipping,  I,  199).  Tilman  Questenberg  loans  25  Highland 
florins  to  the  Senate  of  Cologne. 

1441,  March  1.  (Col.  Arch.,  Rec.  Com.  22,  3.  Letter  book  XV,  64a).  City 
of  Cologne  to  certain  persons  in  Bortefelde.  "  Your  alleged  bondman, 
Tilman  Questenberg,  now  a  citizen  of  Cologne,  can  not  be  held  for 
indemnity  on  account  of  services  not  rendered.'- 

1441,  Dec.  17.    (Col.  Arch.,  Letter  book  116a:  Rec.  Com.  22,  14).    City  of 

Cologne  to  Heinr :  Calff  zen  Mutiken,  Judge  at  Unna:  "Tilman 
Questenberg  denies  owing  Joh:  Eppenscheit  500  noble  for  steel,  and 
requests  justice  in  Cologne." 

1442,  Jan.  12.    (Col.  Arch.,  L.  B.  XV,  n9a :  Rec.  Com.  22,  15).     City  of 

Cologne  to  Heinr:  Calff  zen  Mutiken,  Judge  at  Unna:  "Tilman 
Questenberg  will  answer  to  him  before  the  F.  Gerh  :  v.  d.  Mark,  in 
Cologne." 

1442,  Aug.  22.  (Col.  Arch.,  Doc.  No.  11,576a:  Rec.  Com.  27,  301).  Notarial 
instrument  that  Tilman  and  Bertold  Questenberg  have  taken  Johann 
de  Stummel,  Edmundus  de  Eylsich  and  George  Hotlin  as  their  lawyers 
against  Chevalier  Gerhard  von  Reyde. 

1445,  April  22.    (Col.  Arch.,  Schreinsbusch  134:  Col.  Campsan,  fol.  179a). 

Gerart  Vanme  Coesen  and  Fyegia,  transfer  the  sixth  part  of  their 
dwelling,  called  "  Zu  der  Lillian  auf  der  Bruggen  "  to  Bertram  Ques- 
tenberg, etc. 

1445,  Sept.  22.    (Col.  Arch.,  L.  B.  17,  159b).    Cologne  to  the  German  Hanse 

in  London :  Attests  the  sworn  statement  of  Bertolt  Questenberg  and 
Joh:  Blyterswich,  citizens  of  Cologne,  and  of  Gierhart  van  Herb, 
servant  of  Ropretcht  Blyterswych,  that  they  have  bought  and  sold 
exclusively  for  the  profit  and  loss  of  the  aforenamed, 

1446,  May  20.    (Col.  Arch.,  L.  B.  18,  396.    Rec.  Com.  24,  180).    Cologne  to 

Mayence :  Has  interceded  for  Mayence  with  the  widows  of  Johann 
Mailbord  and  Tilman  Questenberg. 

1447,  Von  der  Rapp,  Vol.  VII,  736,  No.  98).    The  German  merchants  at 

London  to  the  Hanseatic  cities  :  "In  July,  1442,  Robberti  Blitterswicke 
and  Bertolt  Questenberg  lost  from  a  barsed  in  the  Thames,  near  Lon- 
don, 6  terlinge  cloth,  and  in  order  to  regain  the  goods  suffered  a  loss 
on  cost  and  cloth  amounting  to  708  nobelen." 

1447,  Oct.  4.  (Col.  Arch.,  Division:  Hanseatic  Matters).  Antwerp  to  the 
representatives  of  the  merchants  of  the  German  Hanse  in  London, 
England  :  "  Konrad  Questenberch,  merchant  of  the  Hanse,  has  sworn 
that  in  the  present  year  the  goods  in  his  possession  belonging  to  Wilh  ; 
Ketwich,  citizen  of  Cologne,  have  been  seized  by  Aldermen  Bertolt 
Slechter  and  Secretary  Heinrich,  without  indicating  the  person  who 
caused  the  seizure." 


8o  MEMORIALS  OF  THE  QUISENBERRY  FAMILY 


1447,  Nov.  30.    (Col.  Arch.,  Hanseatic  Matters).    Proceedings   before  the 

Burgomaster  and  magistrates  of  Bergen  op  Zoom  between  Berthel 
Qaestenberg,  and  others,  and  citizens  of  Bergen  op  Zoom,  on  account 
of  merchandise  which  was  robbed  from  a  ship  by  Dutchmen. 

1448,  April  26.    (Col.  Arch.,  Schreinsbuchn,  No.  389  and  348).    After  the  death 

of  Tilman  Questenberg,  his  wife,  by  virtue  of  his  will,  inherits  one- 
fourth,  and  also  one-fourth  of  one-fifth  of  the  dwelling  called 
"  Suchteln  "  situate  on  the  Steinweg  ;  she  permits  her  present  husband, 
Johann  Kink,  to  share  in  this  interest  in  the  aforementioned  dwelling. 
Tilman  Questenberg  died  after  1445.  His  widow  (who  married  Joh: 
Rink)  died  before  1463.  She  was  the  daughter  of  the  N.  N.  and 
Taitzgyn  von  Suchtlen. 

1448,  June  11.  (Von  der  Rapp,  III,  308,  309).  Letter  of  the  German  mer- 
chants of  Brugge  to  Cologne  :  Mentions  Bertold  Questenberg,  citizen 
of  Cologne. 

1448.  etc.    The  Cologne  Senate  List  shows  that  Bertold  Questenberg  was  a 

Senator  almost  continuously  from  1448  to  1481. 

1449,  July  2.    (Von  der  Rapp,  III,  408 Refers  to  the  verbal  report  of  Ber- 

told Questenberg  that  Hinr:  Blitterwich  had  been  surprised  and  cap- 
tured on  the  way  from  Brugge  to  Antwerp,  in  Rupelmonde. 

1449,  July  25.  (Von  der  Rapp,  III,  409).  Bertolt  Questenbergh  and  others 
are  mentioned  as  the  representatives  of  the  common  counter  of  the 
Hanse,  at  London,  England. 

1451,  Sept.  3.  (Von  der  Rapp,  III,  573).  Mentions  Bertoult  Questenberg  as 
one  of  the  merchants  of  the  German  Hanse,  in  London,  England. 

1451,  Sept.  17.    (Col.  Arch.,  Hanse  Matters).    Berthold   Questenberg  and 

others  of  the  common  society  of  the  travelers  to  England,  at  this  time 
being  in  Frankfort,  write  a  letter  to  the  city  of  Cologne,  etc. 

1452,  May  27.    (Col.  Arch.,  L.  B.  21,  p.  39).    The  Senate  of  Cologne  requests 

the  Senate  of  Lubeck  to  permit  Bertold  Questenberg  and  other  citizens 
of  Cologne  to  pass  through  Lubeck  with  English  cloths,  as  they  were 
brought  before  the  prohibition. 

1452,  Aug.  15.  (Von  der  Rapp,  IV,  87).  The  German  merchants  of  London  to 
Bertold  Questenberg,  and  others.    (A  letter  in  cipher.) 

1457,  May  31.    (Keusseu's  Matriculates  of  the  University  of  Cologne,  I,  463). 

Tilman  Questenberch  de  Colonia,  ad  artes  intrarit  solvit,  is  matriculated 
in  the  University  of  Cologne. 

1458,  Sept.  6.    (Von  der  Rapp,  IV,  457).    Cologne  to  Bertold  Questenberg  and 

others  relative  to  the  day  line  at  Brugge. 
1461,  Aug.  7.    (Stein's  "Constitution  and  Government  of  Cologne,"  I,  336). 
Bertolt  Questenberg  mentioned  as  Burgomaster. 

1461,  Nov.  18.  (Stein,  II,  387,  388).  Prohibition  of  the  purchase  of  horses 
from  mercenaries  and  night-watchmen.  Referentibus,  Wilhelmo  de 
Canero  et  Bertoldo  Questenberg. 


IX  GERMANY,  ENGLAND  AND  AMERICA. 


8i 


1462,  March  10.  (Keussen's  Matriculates,  I,  515).  Matriculated  in  the 
University  of  Cologne  :  Hyurich  Questenberch,  nou  intra vit,  quia 
minoremus,  solvit. 

1462,  March  14.  (Von  der  Rapp,  V,  126).  Agreement  at  Wesel :  Ind  so  synt 
vor  den  hern  den  steden  ershenen  die  eirsamen  Bertolt  Questenberg 
ind  PauwelRoiden,  Couplon  von  Collen.  (Untranslatable.) 

1462,  Nov.  13.    (Stein,  I,  398).    Refers  to  the  presence  of  the  jury  at  the 

Sessions  for  discussing  matters  pertaining  to  the  Superior  Court. 
Referate  :  Bertoldo  Questenberg. 

1463,  May  13.    (Col.  Arch..  Hanse  Matters,  a.)     Bertold  Questenberg  and 

other  citizens  of  Cologne  in  London,  to  Cologne:  ''Report  that  the 
damage  done  them  by  French  subjects  has  not  yet  been  repaired, 
despite  many  petitions  to  the  King  and  Parliament ;  fear  in  case  they 
are  not  reimbursed  by  June  24,  and  receive  no  protection  through 
Cologne's  freedom,  to  lose  their  whole  possessions  ;  and  beg  that  a 
committee  be  sent  to  King  and  Parliament  in  order  to  learn  whom  the 
citizens  of  Cologne  have  for  friend  or  enemy,  and  to  disjDose  of  the 
assertion  that  Cologne  is  in  alliance  with  the  King  of  England. 

14C5,  Sept.  19-Oct.  9.  (Yon  der  Rapp.  V.  481).  "  Bertold  Questenberch  and 
other  careful  men  were  present  at  the  Hanseatic  Council,  at  Hamburg, 
representing  the  affairs  of  the  Hanse  at  London,  England." 

1465,  Nov.  5.    (Yon  der  Rapp,  Y.  527).    Heinrich  Grevenstein  reports  that  he 

had  taken  steps  in  behalf  of  Bertold  Questenbergh  and  the  other 
captured  Commissioners  of  Cologne,  and  expects  their  speedy  libera- 
tion. 

1466,  Nov.  8.    (Kuipping,  I,  140).    Bertolt  Questenberg  buys  some  life  annui- 

ties, etc. 

1467,  Aug.  12.    (Col,  Arch.,  Hanse  Matters,  9).    Hermann  Wanmete  to  Bert. 

Questenberg  and  others  of  the  common  society  of  England's  travelers, 
at  Cologne  :  A  letter  concerning  the  vain  efforts  of  Lubeck  to  secure 
peace  with  England,  etc. 

1468,  (Ennen,  III,  704).   According  to  a  register  of  1468,  among  other  Cologne 

merchants  in  London  who  had  overseers  was  Christian  Questenberg. 

1470,  Feb.  20.  (Col.  Arch.,  Hanse  Matters.)  The  Common  Society  of  Cologne 
at  London,  to  Bertold  Questenberg  and  the  common  society  of  Eng- 
land's travelers,  at  Cologne  :  Reports  upon  its  efforts  with  the  King  to 
confirm  their  privileges,  etc, 

1472,  July  8.    (Stein,  I,  428).    Mentions  Bertolt  Questenberg  as  Keuffermeister 

of  Cologne. 

1473,  April  21.    (Stein,  II,  502).    Bertoult  Questenberg  is  mentioned  in  con- 

nection with  the  promulgation  of  the  regulations  for  the  safety  of  the 
city  of  Cologne. 

1474,  Aug.  2-Sept.  10.    (Stein,  II,  510-13).    Relative  to  the  departure  of  the 

armed  forces  for  the  field.    Referate  :  Bertoldo  Questenberg. 


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1475,  June  13.    (Stein,  I,  434).    Relative  to  the  atonement  of  the  Senators  and 

their  friends,  and  other  accomplished  gentlemen,  who  did  not  obey  the 
order  for  the  meeting.  Referate :  Bartoldo  Questenberg,  magistro 
memoriarura, 

1476,  May  20- June  28.    (Von  der  Rapp,  VII,  533).    Cord  Questenberg  is  men- 

tioned as  a  delegate  to  the  Hanseatic  Council  at  Lubeck. 

1478,  June  4.  (Stein,  II,  562-'3).  Bertoldo  Questenberg  referente  in  the 
matter  of  regulating  apothecary  shops. 

1478,  Aug.  28.  (Schafer's  "  Hanse  Documents,"  I,  25,  No.  36).  Cologne  to 
the  Cologne  merchants  at  London  :  Reply  to  the  letter  of  Bertolt 
Questenberg  and  other  Cologne  citizens,  as  to  how  to  obtain  special 
privileges,  etc. 

1487,  April  25.  (Schafer,  II,  106,  No.  114).  Relative  to  loss  of  Kurt  Questen- 
berg from  a  too  low  estimate  made  on  his  goods  at  London. 

1489,  Aug.  29.  (Toepke's  "  Matriculates  of  the  University  of  Heidelberg,"  I, 
394).  "  Among  the  matriculates  of  the  University  of  Heidelberg  has 
been  Gotfridus  Questenberg,  ex  Colonia." 

1491,  June  1.  (Schafer,  II,  517,  No.  507,  etc).  Complaints  of  the  Cologne 
delegates  upon  the  day  journey  with  the  English  at  Antwerp,  before 
the  Utrecht  peace.  Among  others :  The  indemnification  of  Bertram 
Questenberch  and  Johann  Questenberch. 

1494,  June  10.  (Schafer,  II,  304,  No.  377).  Cologne  to  Johann  Questenberg 
merchant  of  Cologne,  being  at  this  time  at  Antwerp  :  "  Transmits 
letter  and  copy  addressed  to  the  King  of  England,  at  the  request  of  the 
merchants  in  intercourse  with  England,  and  asks  what  else  may  be 
done,  and  whom  to  address,"  etc. 

1504.  The  Cologne  Senate  List  shows  that  Johann  Questenberg  was  a  member 
of  the  Senate  continuously  from  1504  to  1514. 

1515,  Oct.  17.  (Hanse  Documents,  VI,  709).  Eberh  :  Koster,  at  Antwerp,  to 
Johann  Questenberg.  and  other  Cologne  merchants :  Requests  that  a 
Hanse  delegation  be  sent  to  France  to  see  the  King  about  the  restitu- 
tion of  the  stolen  merchandise,  etc. 


WILLS. 

WILL  OF  JOHAN  QUESTENBORCH. 

(Royal  State  Archives;  Dusseldorf ;  wills  of  Cologne  Citizens  ;  Lit:  Q.  No.  17). 

In  God's  name,  amen.  Be  it  known  to  all  who  may  see  or  hear  read  this  pub- 
lic instrument,  testament,  legacy  and  last  will, that  in  the  year  after  the  birth  of 
Christ  our  Lord  1528,  in  the  eleventh  indiction,  on  the  3rd  day  of  the  month 
of  January  at  2  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  in  the  first  year  of  the  papal  reign  of 


IX  GERMANY,  ENGLAND  AND  AMERICA. 


83 


Arian  Sixth,  by  the  Grace  of  God  Pope,  and  in  the  third  year  of  the  imperial 
reign  of  the  most  illastrious  aud  Pui5:>auT  Prince  and  Lord.  Charles,  chosen 
Koman  Emperor,  at  all  times  of  several  domains,  there  personally  came  and 
appeared  before  tlie  wise  and  honorable  Herr  Hilger  van  dem  Spiegell  and  Johan 
Slossgin.  Justices  at  Cologne,  and  also  before  me.  notary,  and  the  witnesses 
hereinafter  named  who  were  especially  summoned  for  that  purpose,  the  wise 
and  honorable  Johan  Questexbobch,  citizen  of  Cologne,  and  Styngin,  his  wife  : 
and  as  the  said  Johan  was  somewhat  feeble  of  body,  bttt  by  God's  grace  in  pos- 
session of  his  mind  and  senses,  as  all  cotild  plainly  see,  and  they  considering 
and  concluding  under  divine  direction  that  all  human  life  up' m  this  miserable 
earth  is  uncertain,  frail  and  temporary  and  is  subject  to  extinction,  and  also 
that  death  is  certain  and  the  hottr  thereof  uncertain,  have  decided  to  make  and 
do  hereby  make  this  their  last  will  and  testament :  and  that  the  survivor  of  the 
two  may  not  be  given  trouble  or  burdened  with  pain  through  any  dissensions 
of  their  children,  and  in  order  that  friendly  feelings  and  harmony  may  at  all 
times  exist  among  them,  the  said  Johan  and  Stingin.  married  people,  to  the 
honor  of  God  and  the  bliss  and  consolation  of  their  souls,  do  hereby  make  and 
ordain  this  their  last  will  and  disposition  of  all  their  goods  and  property,  aud 
declare  it  in  the  best  and  most  binding  form  that  may,  can  or  might  be ; 
and  that  the  .  .  .  previously-made,  sealed  and  executed  will  muy  not  disap- 
point their  children,  they  make  this  their  last  will  without  prejudice  or  injury 
to  any  of  them,  and  they  desire  therefore  that  all  and  every  testaments  or 
heretofore  made  shall  be  hereby  annulled  and  revoked,  and  they  make 
this  instrttmeut  the  order  of  their  testament,  legacy  and  last  will,  for  the  ben- 
efit (jf  their  chiLIren.  and  desire  that  it  shall  stand  and  remain  unbroken,  as 
hereinafter  described. 

Firstly  :  they  give  their  souls  after  death  to  God  the  Almighty,  to  ]\Iary  his 
benign  mother,  and  to  all  the  Saints,  to  bring  them  into  the  lap  of  everlasting 
bliss:  and  their  bodies  to  the  chttrch  vault  for  the  prayers  of  all  the  priests 
there  :'\vhicii  vault  they  have  chosen  and  reserved  at  St.  Coltimbeni  and  they 
are  to  be  given  decorous  funerals,  as  may  be  respectaljle.  proper  and  suitable 
to  their  station  in  life  :  and  it  is  their  express  will  and  contract  that  the  sur- 
vivor shall  have  read  three  masses  daily  during  three  years  in  the  church  at 
St.  Golumben  ;  similarly  the  survivor  of  the  two  shall  have  three  masses  read 
for  the  first  departed  everyday  during  three  years  in  God's  hotise  at  St.  Agatha, 
and  ah  annual  mass  during  the  three  years  following,  and  a  daily  mass  at  the 
Augustiues  for  the  soul  of  the  first  departed  and  for  the  sotils  of  all  who  may 
desire  it,  or  are  in  distress,  as  is  customary.  Thereafter  it  is  their  will  to  give  to 
His  Grace  the  Archbishop  of  Cologne  one  golt-gtilden  to  be  paid  by  the  sur- 
vivor of  the  two :  and  it  is  also  their  will  to  give  toward  the  building  of  the 
Cathedral  in  Cologne  five  and  twenty  gulden,  each  gulden  valued  at  four  marcks- 
rader.  in  order  that  the  wiirthy  holy  crucifix  of  the  Savior  may  be  placed  in  the 
new  sanctttary  to  be  ad'  >red  and  honored  by  the  common  populace. 

Item  :  it  is  thnir  wish  aud  desire  to  give  to  the  Nun-  at  St.  Agatha  200  gtil- 
den.  each  gulden  valued  at  4  rnarck-rader.  ami  said  nuns  shall  bind  themselves 
to  perpettially  hold  an  annual  memorial  service  in  their  chapel  for  the  souls  of 
the  said  m3.rried  people. and  of  all  those  who  may  wish  it.  It  is  also  their  wish 
to  give  to  Elysabeth  Qaestenberch,  their  daughter,  now  at  St.  Agatha,  lOu  gul- 


84  MEMORIAI.S  OF  THE  QUISENBERRY  FAMILY 


den  for  her  sustenance  and  necessities  and  not  to  be  used  for  any  other  purpose, 
and  to  be  preferred  above  all  their  other  legacies. 

Item  :  it  is  their  will  to  give  to  Conradt  Geylenkirchen  five  and  twenty  sim- 
ilar gulden. 

Item  :  it  is  their  will  to  give  to  Cathringen,  daughter  of  Peter  Hoymbach, 
their  grandchild,  300  similar  gulden. 

Item :  it  is  their  will  to  give  to  the  Bretgrien  in  Cologne  five  and  twenty  gul- 
den, each  valued  at  marck  ;  and  fo  the  Minnen  Brothers  five  and  twenty  gulden, 
and  to  the  Augustines  four  similar  gulden,  and  therefor  the  said  three  Orders  shall 
carry  both  their  bodies  to  the  church  vault  and  perform  the  usual  burial  rites 
for  the  souls  of  the  dead,  and  to  institute  a  perpetual  annual  service  for  these 
married  people  in  their  chapels,  according  to  custom.  It  is  their  will  to  give  to 
the  Frauwen  Brothers  in  Cologne  10  gulden  each  valued  at  4  marck,  and  there- 
for the  said  Brothers  shall  help  carry  their  bodies  to  the  church  vault,  and  they 
shall  perform  the  usual  burial  rites  in  their  chapel  for  the  soul  of  the  first 
departed. 

Item  :  it  is  their  will  to  give  to  the  monastery  at  Bottenbroick  80  gulden,  each 
gulden  valued  at  4  Cologne  marck,  and  therefor  the  brethren  of  the  same  shall 
hold  a  burial  service  in  their  chapel  for  the  first  departed,  and  shall  bind  them- 
selves to  hold  perpetually  an  annual  memorial  service  for  the  souls  of  the 
testators,  and  to  give  it  truly  and  genuinely,  as  they  fully  trust  the  brethren  to 
perform  it. 

Item  :  it  is  their  will  to  give  to  the  Convent  Koeningsdorp  and  to  the  Con- 
vent at  Woeryngen  each  ten  Cologne  gulden,  and  to  the  Convent  at  Herch  five 
similar  gulden,  and  therefor  the  three  convents  shall  hold  in  their  respective 
chapels  burial  services  for  the  first  departed,  and  shall  pray  fervently  to 
Almighty  God  for  his  or  her  soul. 

Item  :  it  is  their  will  to  give  to  St.  Mauricien  in  Cologne  10  gulden,  and  to 
the  Body  of  our  Lord  15  gulden,  and  to  the  Convents  of  St.  Vincent  Burch- 
muyrenand  St.  Nicholas  in  the  Burchhoeve,  and  also  to  the  Brothers  atLongen, 
each  10  gulden  valued  at  4  Cologne  marck  each,  for  their  chapels,  and  there 
for  each  of  the  said  convents  shall  hold  in  its  chapel  a  burial  service  for  the 
first  departed,  according  to  their  usual  custom,  and  shall  truly  pray  to  Almighty 
God  for  his  or  her  soul. 

Item  :  it  is  their  will  to  give  to  the  Convent  at  Marien  Bethlehem  in  the 
Roymersgasse  15  gulden,  and  to  the  Cloister  at  Eygelsteyn  five  and  twenty 
gulden  ;  to  Nazareth,  on  St.  Geronisstraysse,  10  gulden  ;  and  to  the  Cloister  at 
St.  Johan  10  gulden ;  each  gulden  at  4  marck-rader  ;  and  therefor  the  said  con- 
vents shall  hold  burial  services  in  their  chapels  for  the  first  departed,  and  shall 
truly  pray  to  Almighty  God  for  his  or  her  soul. 

Item  :  it  is  their  will  and  desire  to  give  to  the  poor  foundlings  in  the  Cathedral 
25  similar  gulden. 

Item  :  it  is  their  will  to  give  to  the  poor  people  in  the  hospital  at  St.  Revel- 
lien  and  in  the  hospital  at  St.  Cathrynen,  and  to  the  poor  people  in  the  Yper- 
walde,  each  25  similar  gulden,  which  amount  shall  be  used  and  spent  for  wine, 
flour  and  bread  for  the  poor  people  in  said  hospitals,  and  for  nothing  else. 

Item :  it  is  their  will  and  desire  to  give  to  the  lepers  at  Melaten  and  to  the 
lepers  and  poor  people  in  the  Yuedenbuchell  and  at  Vyle  ten  gulden  each,  and 
to  the  poor  lepers  at  Wyer  5  similar  gulden,  each  valued  at  4  marck. 


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Item  :  it  is  their  will  to  give  to  the  Carthuyseren  10  gulden,  and  therefor 
they  shall  hold  a  burial  service  in  their  chapel  for  the  first  departed,  and  to 
truly  pray  for  the  soul  of  him  or  her. 

Item  :  it  is  their  will  to  give  to  the  pastor  at  St-  Columben  two  gulden,  and 
to  the  sacristan  thereof  one  gulden . 

Item  :  it  is  their  will  to  give  to  Frederich  Faenpoit,  priest  of  Hoelfelt,  2 
golt-gulden,  and  to  Dedrich  von  Dortmunde  1  golt-gulden. 

Item :  it  is  their  will  to  give  to  Johan  Sydevevren  10  gulden  :  also  to  Jacob- 
their  servant,  as  a  reward,  15  similar  gulden,  each  valued  at  4-marck, 
radergeldtz. 

It  is  their  will  to  give  to  Styngin,  natural  daughter  of  their  son  Bertoldt,  200 
gulden,  each  of  the  value  of  4  marck,  which  shall  be  used  and  expended  for 
the  benefit  of  said  Styngin  whether  she  devotes  herself  to  a  spiritual  avocation 
or  enters  holy  wedlock. 

Item  :  Both  and  each  of  the  testators  agree  that  the  survivor  of  the  two  shall 
execute  this  and  carry  it  out,  taking  proper  receipts  from  the  beneficiaries,  and 
in  no  other  manner.  Furthermore,  said  Johan  and  Stingen  ordain,  wish,  and 
desire  that  there  be  held  and  read  perpetually  at  the  church  of  St,  Columben 
before  the  altar  of  St,  Barbara,  a  daily  mass,  beginning  at  the  time  of  the  death 
of  the  first  of  them,  for  both  their  souls,  the  souls  of  their  parents  and  of  all 
those  who  may  desire  it  :  and  as  soon  as  the  mass  is  read  and  over  the  priest 
who  read  the  mass  shall  go  to  the  graves  of  the  said  testators  and  there  read 
de  profundis,  with  the  usual  collect  ;  and  if  the  priest  at  any  time  is  not  able  to 
read  the  mass  himself  he  shall  be  compelled  and  bound  to  put  another  suitable 
priest  in  his  place,  so  that  the  mass  may  not  be  missed  at  any  time  :  and  the  priest 
who  has  been  selected  to  read  the  mass  shall  be  a  suitable  priest,  of  good  regimen, 
and  it  shall  be  given  to  no  other.  And  in  order  that  the  mass  may  be  held  and 
read  daily,  and  not  forgotten,  said  Johann  and  Stingin  desire  to  give  m  support 
of  the  said  masses,  and  hereby  expressly  give,  leave,  and  bequeath  38  half  gulden 
of  4  marck-radergeldtz  of  hereditary  rents  and  faire-gulden  to  the  wise  and  hon- 
orable Burgomaster,  Justice  and  Councillor  of  the  Eoyal  court  and  city  of  Aiche, 
to  be  paid  annually  :  the  principal  considerations  pertaining  to  it  beginning 
as  follows:  "To  all  people  to  whom  this  our  open  document  may  come,  we, 
Burgomaster,  Justice,  Councillor  and  ordinary  citizen  of  the  royal  court  and 
city  Aich,  be  it  known  that  we  have  sold  and  do  hereby  sell  to  Joens  Wylreman. 
38  half  gulden,  each  of  said  gulden  valued  at  24  Electoral  wisspennynckge,  or 
whatever  they  may  be  worth  in  other  good  minted  money  at  the  time  of  pay- 
ment hereafter  to  be  made  in  the  city  of  Cologne,  from  the  annual  income  as  a 
moderate  sum  of  money,  namely,  a  half-hundred  of  modest  Overlandische 
Khenisch  gulden  turned  over  to  us  and  converted  according  to  the  best  of  our 
ability,"  etc.,  etc.:  and  ending  thus  :  ''  On  our  dear  Lady's  day,  nativitatis,  in 
the  year  of  our  Lord  1490,"  together  with  a  will  document  relating  thereto, 
which  begins  thus:  "  I  Joens  Wylreman,  citizen  of  Aiche,  give  public  notice 
to  all  people  before  me  and  my  heirs  by  virtue  of  this  document,"  etc.,  and 
concluding:  "  On  the  9th  day  of  May  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  1502  ;  "  which 
38  half  gulden  and  hereditary  rents  with  the  principal  conditions  and  will- 
documents  relating  thereto  the  said  testators  have  given  and  bec[ueathed  to  the 
perpetual  hereditary  mass  by  virtue  of  this  public  instrument,  with  the  direc- 


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tion  that  the  priest  who  reads,  performs  and  holds  the  mass  shall  have  annually 
34  of  the  said  half  gulden  for  his  labor  and  trouble,  and  the  4  gulden  of  heredi- 
tary rents  shall  be  devoted,  turned  over  and  used  for  the  perpetual  annual 
memorial  service,  which  memorial  service  shall  be  continually  held  in  the 
church  at  St.  Columben  at  all  four  quatuor  tempore  with  vigils  and  a  singing 
mass  for  the  souls  of  their  parents  and  themselves  as  well  as  for  the  souls  of 
all  who  may  desire  it.  And  in  case  such  hereditary  mass  together  with  the 
perpetual  annual  memorial  service  should  be  neglected  and  not  performed  in 
whole  or  in  part,  the  38  half  gulden  and  the  hereditary  rents  should  be  given 
up  in  the  future,  the  beneficiaries  and  collatoris  of  these  hereditary  masses  shall 
not  retain  the  funds  on  account  of  the  release,  but  shall  at  once  again  invest 
the  hereditary  funds  in  a  safe  manner  and  place  in  order  that  the  masses  and 
memorials  together  with  the  annual  services  may  be  read  and  held,  and  not 
neglected.  And  therefore  it  is  the  will  of  the  testators  that  their  latest  heirs 
and  descendants  who  may  be  last  living  shall  be  at  all  times  the  beneficiaries 
and  collatoris  of  the  said  hereditary  masses,  if  it  can  be  done ;  but  if  their 
descendants  who  are  now  and  hereafter  may  be  living  should  all  die  oif  one 
after  the  other,  the  sacristans  at  St.  Columben  at  the  time  who  may  be  pleased 
to  give  the  mass  shall  be  the  beneficiaries  and  collatoris  of  the  said  masses  and 
remain  so  forever :  and  it  is  the  will  of  the  testators  that  the  said  rent-docu- 
ments together  with  the  will-documents  concerning  the  survivor  of  the  two 
shall  be  devoted  and  used  in  a  true  and  faithful  manner  for  the  aforementioned 
hereditary  masses ;  and  that  the  said  survivor  of  the  two  shall  have  a  guarantee 
and  indemnity  with  the  advice  of  the  sacristans  having  charge  thereof,  and  shall 
seal  and  bind  with  their  seals  that  the  said  hereditary  masses  and  memorials  to 
God's  love  and  honor,  and  also  to  the  bliss,  salvation  and  consolation  of  their 
own  souls,  shall  be  continually  held  and  not  missed  nor  neglected ;  and  the 
'said  testators  will  that  this  hereditary  mass  shall  be  read  officially  as  heretofore 
declared  and  described,  and  shall  be  held  in  no  other  place  nor  location  than 
those  previously  named,  but  in  them  alone.  Furthermore,  it  is  the  will  of 
Johan  Questenborch  that  Stingin  his  wife  shall  give  and  expend  4000  golt- 
gulden  out  of  their  joint  income  (according  to  their  agreement)  to  the  poor  in 
the  almshouse,  for  God's  glory,  if  Johan  should  not  execute  this  purpose  during 
his  own  life ;  and  said  Johan  agrees  that  in  case  Stingin  should  depart  first  he 
will  distribute  5000  or  6000  golt-gulden  according  as  she  may  direct  for  God's 
honor,  or  will  give  it  to  any  of  her  next  of  kin  whom  she  desires  to  have  it,  or 
to  their  children,  or  to  any  one  else.  And  the  said  Johan  and  Stingin  have 
harmoniously  agreed  that  the  survivor  of  the  two  shall  remain  in  possession  of 
all  and  every  of  the  remaining  goods  and  properties,  during  life,  and  use  and 
enjoy  it  according  as  they  may  have  need,  and  shall  not  be  accountable  for  it  to 
their  children  and  heirs  or  to  any  one  else,  in  any  manner  whatsoever. 

Item :  And  then  the  said  Johan  and  Stingin  related  how  their  lawful  son, 
Bertolt  Questenberch,  had  conducted  himself  in  England,  where  he  mingled 
and  associated  with  dissolute  companions  and  also  neglected  his  business  to 
such  an  extent  that  it  fell  away  greatly,  and  he  loaned  out  his  parents'  goods 
and  cash  and  incurred  bad  debts,  and  also  spent  and  gave  away  foolishly  more 
than  4000  golt-gulden  in  gold — whereby  the  said  testators  have  just  cause  to 
disinherit  the  said  Bertoldt,  their  son.    However,  through  the  intervention  of 


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se-veral  good  friends  and  acquaintances,  and  through  the  desire  of  the  highly- 
honorable  and  devout  Niclais  Zegeler,  master  at  Barr,  the  said  Johan  and  Stin- 
gen  have  forgiven  and  condoned  the  said  actions  and  misdeeds  of  their  son  : 
with  the  restriction  and  on  the  condition  that  if  Bertoldt  desires  after  their 
death  to  divide  with  his  sisters  and  the  heirs  at  law,  and  to  claim  and  take  pos- 
session of  his  share,  he  shall  first  pay  in  2000  golt-gulden  in  gold,  or  deduct  it 
from  his  share,  on  account  of  the  4000  golt-gulden  in  gold  which  he  dissipated 
and  squandered  in  the  aforemention  foolish  manner :  and  after  Bertoult  has 
brought  2000  golt-gulden  into  the  division  or  they  have  been  deducted  from 
his  share,  then,  and  not  before,  shall  the  said  Bertolt  be  and  stand  upon  an 
equal  division  with  his  sisters  and  the  heirs  at  law,  after  the  death  of  his  parents, 
and  not  otherwise.  Furthermore,  he  shall  not  have  and  keep  for  his  own 
benefit  whatever  he  may  be  able  to  collect  of  the  bad  debts  which  he  foolishly 
incurred  in  England,  but  shall  divide  it  with  his  sisters  and  the  heirs  at  law. 
But  should  Bertolt,  their  son.  not  bring  them  2000  golt-gulden  as  aforemen- 
tioned, nor  agree  to  have  it  deducted  from  his  share  in  the  division,  the  said 
Johan  and  Stingen  desire  and  will  that  Bertolt,  their  son,  shall  have  and  keep, 
once  for  all,  1000  golt-gulden  in  gold,  and  thereafter  their  said  son  shall  have 
no  further  share  in  their  remaining  goods,  chattels,  property,  money,  silverware, 
and  f arniture,  and  all  and  every  of  their  outstanding  claims  that  may  be  found 
either  within  or  without  Cologne  after  their  death ;  and  he  shall  be  totally  dis- 
inherited and  remain  satisfied  therewith.  And  when  their  said  son  Bertolt  has 
been  disinherited  and  cut  off  from  all  their  possessions  as  before  declared,  now 
as  then  and  then  as  now,  neither  their  said  son  Bertolt  nor  any  one  else  on  his 
account  shall  thereafter  have  a  right  in  any  manner  to  claim  or  demand  any  of 
their  remaining  goods,  chattels,  or  outstanding  bills,  nor  to  have,  hold,  place, 
or  invest  them  in  any  manner.  But  their  daughters  and  heirs  at  law  who  may 
abide  by  the  terms  of  this  will  shall  then  have  all  and  every  of  the  remaining 
goods,  chattels,  and  possessions,  together  with  the  outstanding  bills,  to  hold 
and  divide  the  same  equally  among  themselves.  And  Johan  and  Stingin  will 
and  bequeath  by  virtue  of  this  instrument  to  their  subservient  and  obedient 
children  and  heirs  at  law  all  remaining  goods,  chattels,  and  possessions,  together 
with  their  outstanding  bills,  with  such  restriction  as  is  previously  and  herein- 
after written,  ordered,  and  decreed. 

Item:  in  like  manner  the  said  testators  have  jointly  concluded  and  decreed 
that  as  it  might  happen  that  any  one  of  their  daughters  and  heirs  at  law  may 
not  abide  by  this  will,  or  in  any  event  may  oppose  it  by  words  or  deeds,  then 
he  or  she  so  opposing  or  disobeying  shall  have  as  his  or  her  share  1000  golt- 
gulden,  once  for  all,  and  therewith  shall  be  cut  off,  disinherited  and  dispos- 
sessed totally  and  completely  from  all  the  remainder  of  the  property  of  what- 
ever description.  And  said  testators  wish  all  this  to  be  held  and  observed  as 
their  last  will  without  hindrance  or  opposition  from  any  one ;  and  if  their  son, 
daughters,  and  heirs  at  law  hold  filially  and  dutifully  to  the  survivor  and  con- 
duct themselves  according  to  the  contents  of  this  will  (of  which  the  testators 
have  no  doubt),  then  the  said  testators  wish  and  will  that  their  children  and 
heirs  at  law  (after  testators'  death)  shall  divide  equally,  as  it  becomes  brothers 
and  sisters  to  divide,  all  and  every  of  their  remaining  possessions,  monies,  rents, 
moveables,  live  stock,  and  goods,  together  with  their  outstanding  bills,  and  that 


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the  2000  golt-gulden  are  to  be  added  by  their  son  Bertoldt,  as  above  directed, 
or  else  deducted  from  his  share.  And  each  one,  whether  son  or  daughter,  shall 
be  charged  in  the  division  with  what  they  have  received,  and  shall  then  divide 
cordially  and  fraternally  with  the  others,  as  has  hereinbefore  been  directed. 
And  the  said  Johan  and  Stingen  desire  to  have  and  to  hold  all  this  as  their  last 
will,  and  in  the  aforementioned  manner  and  method  each  of  the  said  testators 
has  named  and  chosen  the  other  who  may  be  last  living  as  his  or  her  true  execu- 
tor, and  desire  him  or  her  to  execute  truly  all  the  aforementioned  devises,  and 
to  do  it  thoroughly  by  virtue  of  this  instrument. 

Lastly  :  the  said  Johan  and  Stingen,  married  people,  wish  and  will  that  this 
well-considered  instrument  be  their  last  will  and  testament,  to  be  observed  and 
held  as  such,  and  to  have  the  effect  and  force  of  a  lawful  testament  and  legacy. 
(Some  unmeaning  "  legal  jargon"  is  omitted  here. — Translator.) 

Done  in  Cologne  in  the  dwelling  house  of  the  testators,  situated  "Upder 
Brugge,"  in  the  parish  of  St.  Columben,  in  a  room  in  the  said  house,  in  the 
year  of  our  Lord,  indiction,  month,  day,  time,  country,  and  empire  aforemen- 
tioned, and  signed  before  the  justices  and  me,  notary,  and  witnessed  by  the 
honorable  Jacop  and  Dunwalt  Cremer. 


WILL  OF  BERTHOLT  QUESTENBURG. 
(Koyal  Archives;  Dusseldorf  ;  Wills  of  Cologne  Citizens  ;  Lit :  Q.  No.  23.) 

On  March  30,  1543,  in  the  first  indiction  of  the  Roman  numeral,  on  Friday 
after  the  Holy  Passion,  the  day  being  the  30th  of  March,  about  3  o'clock  in  the 
afternoon,  in  the  22d  year  of  the  reign  of  the  most  illustrious  Prince  and  Lord, 
Lord  Charles,  by  the  grace  of  God  crowned  Roman  Emperor,  and  at  all  times 
King  of  several  domains  in  Germany,  Spain,  both  Sicilies,  Jerusalem,  Hungary, 
etc. ,  there  personally  appeared  before  Hilgus  vam  Spegels  and  Melchiors  Mom- 
merschlogs,  Justices  at  Cologne,  and  of  me,  notary  public,  the  honorable  and 
esteemed  Bebtholt  Questenbukg,  citizen  of  Cologne,  and  his  wife  Margretha 
Clippincks,  said  Margrieth  being  weak  of  body  but  sound  of  mind,  and  declared 
the  following  as  their  last  will  and  testament,  namely  : 

Firstly,  they  give  their  souls  to  God  and  his  beloved  mother  Mary  ;  and  his 
body  to  be  buried  in  the  parish  of  St.  Columben  in  the  grave  of  his  parents, 
and  hers  in  the  grave  of  her  parents  in  the  same  parish,  &c.  Item  :  they  give 
to  the  most  holy  father  the  Pope  and  to  the  Archbishop  of  Cologne  and  toward 
the  building  of  the  high  Cathedral  in  Cologne,  each  a  tornisch  ;  and  toward  the 
building  of  the  parish  church  of  St.  Laurentium,  in  Cologne,  one  gulden  ;  and 
to  the  poor  100  gulden,  to  be  paid  by  the  survivor.  Margareth  wills  especially, 
with  Berthold's  consent,  that  there  be  instituted  by  her  heirs  and  relatives,  a 
memorial  mass  at  St.  Laurentium,  by  the  Preachers  of  Cologne,  similar  to  the 
one  instituted  to  the  memory  of  Elizabeth  Klippincks,  and  gives  therefor  an 
annuity  of  15  golt-gulden.  Item  :  the  testators  include  in  this  will  all  the 
possessions  that  each  inherited  from  their  parents  or  derived  from  any  or  all 
other  sources,  and  the  survivor  is  made  executor.  Make  their  children  heirs 
equally  of  everything,  but  if  any  of  them  are  disobedient  their  share  may  be 
withheld.    Reserve  the  right  to  alter,  change,  etc. 


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Done  in  a  chamber  upstairs  in  the  house  of  the  testators  in  the  parish  of  St. 
Laurence,  at  the  time  aforesaid.  Witnesses  :  Johan  von  Brempt  and  Nicasius 
Foegeler.    Notary  :  Johan  Helman. 

(Much  condensed.) 

WILL  OF  MAEGAKETA  QUESTENBEEG. 
(Eoyal  Archives:  Dusseldorf:  Wills  of  Cologne  Citizens,  Lit:  Q.  No.  18). 

On  Januarj'  24,  1558,  on  Monday  about  2  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  in  the 
third  year  of  Pope  Paul  IV,  and  in  the  thirty-ninth  year  of  Charles  Y,  chosen 
Eoman  Emperor,  etc.,  there  appeared  before  Matthis  von  Thitz  and  Johan 
Yerriss,  Justices  of  the  Electoral  High  Court  at  Cologne,  Maegareta  Questen- 
BEEG,  lawful  daughter  of  Johan  Questenberg,  deceased,  sound  in  body  and 
mind,  and  declared  her  last  will  and  testament  as  follows  : 

First,  she  gives  her  soul  to  God,  Jesus  Christ,  and  Holy  Mary  his  mother, 
and  to  all  the  Saints,  and  wishes  to  be  buried  in  the  church  vault  at  St. 
Columben  at  the  altar  of  St.  Nicolais,  where  Bertholdt  Questenberch  is  buried. 
Item  :  she  desires  to  be  buried  with  all  solemnities  and  according  to  her  station 
in  life  by  the  four  Praying  Orders  and  all  the  priests  at  St.  Columben,  and  each 
of  these  priests  shall  have  a  thornisch.  Item  :  to  the  Archbishop  and  Elector 
of  Cologne,  one  golt-gulden,  and  toward  the  building  of  the  cathedral  one  golt- 
gulden.  To  each  of  the  four  Praying  Orders  one  ten-gulden  current,  for  which 
they  are  to  perform  the  burial  service  and  pray  for  her  soul.  Item  :  one  ten- 
gulden  current  to  the  Brothers  of  the  Cross,  for  which  they  shall  pray  for  her 
soul.  Item  :  one  ten-golt-gulden  to  the  Convent  in  the  Eemersgasse,  that  she 
may  be  prayed  for :  to  the  Cloisters  at  St.  Mauritius  and  St.  Agagtha  and  St. 
Agatius  in  the  Marcellusstrasse,  each  one  ten-gulden  current  to  pray  for  her. 
Item  :  to  the  monks  at  St.  Ignatius  and  under  "  sixteen  houses,"  and  to  the 
chapel  at  St.  Michaell  at  St.'Cilien,  each  one  ten-gulden  current,  to  pray  for 
her  soul.  Item  :  she  wishes  three  annual  masses,  one  at  St.  Agaten,  one  at 
St.  Ignatius  in  the  Stolckgasse,  and  one  at  St.  Columben,  to  be  read  immediately 
after  her  death,  and  gives  for  each  25  golt-gulden.  And  she  gives  an  annuity 
of  42  half-gulden  for  the  high  Cathedral  at  Cologne,  to  be  derived  from  von 
Bonnenberg,  left  to  her  by  her  parents  ;  and  an  annuity  of  12  golt-gulden  to 
the  convent  in  the  Eomergasse  in  Cologne,  and  both  said  sums  are  to  be  used 
for  five  hereditary  masses  for  her  soul  to  be  held  once  a  week  for  five  weeks  in 
the  church  at  St.  Columben;  the  first  mass  to  be  held  every  Saturday  at  the 
altar  of  St.  Nicolais  wtth  playing  of  the  organ,  and  shall  be  a  high  mass  ;  the 
second  shall  be  held  every  Sunday  at  the  chapel  of  St.  Michaell  at  St.  Columben, 
and  the  third,  fourth,  and  fifth  shall  be  held  Mondays,  Tuesdays,  and  Thursdays 
at  the  altar  of  St.  Nicolais  there,  etc.  She  gives  an  annuity  of  4  golt-gulden 
to  be  paid  to  the  cathedral  funds  for  an  annual  and  quarterly  memorial  services. 
Item  :  she  gives  to  each  of  her  executors  an  ort-gultz  so  long  as  they  live,  for 
which  they  shall  see  that  her  will  is  carried  out,  etc. ,  and  after  the  death  of  the 
executors  this  income  shall  go  to  the  Priors  of  the  Preachers  and  Brothers  of 
the  Cross  for  a  similar  purpose.  The  documents  concerning  the  42  golt-gulden 
shall  be  put  in  a  strong  box  at  St.  Columben  and  preserved  there  forever.    Item  : 


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to  the  poor  in  St.  Columben  parish  one  ten-gulden  current  annually  from  the 
rent  of  her  house  called  "  Selionnvedder  "  in  the  Sternengasse.  Item  :  to  her 
niece  Anne  von  der  Eheren,  at  the  Cloister  of  St.  Mauritius,  25  golt-gulden  ; 
to  Christine  Questenberg,  lay-sister  at  St.  Mauritius,  one  piece  goltz :  to 
Adriane  Questenberg,  nun  at  St.  Agatius  in  the  Marcellensstrasse,  one  piece 
goldtz  ;  to  her  sister,  Cunegundis  Questenberg,  widow  of  Peter  von  Heimbach, 
Burgomaster  of  Cologne,  a  rose  noble  and  a  Krollen  paternoster  with  a  gilded 
vesper  image ;  to  Cathriua  Heimbach,  eldest  daughter  of  her  sister  and  wife  of 
Baron  Everhardtz  Suderman,  10  gold  gulden;  to  Margaret  Heimbach,  her 
niece,  wife  of  Dr.  Conradt  Furstenberch,  10  golt-gulden  ;  to  Bartholdt  von 
Heimbach,  her  nephew,  10  golt-gulden,  and  to  the  children  of  her  deceased 
brother,  Bartolt  Qnestenbercb,  namely  :  to  Everhardt,  priest,  and  to  Bartholdt 
Questenberg,  Christine  Questenberchs,  wife  of  Dr.  Otto  Furden,  and  Gerhardt, 
Johan,  and  Caspar,  each  25  golt-gulden.  To  her  nephew,  Herman  von  der 
Eheren,  an  annuity  of  30  golt-guldea  and  two  small  gilded  cups  with  lids;  to 
Peter  von  der  Eheren  an  annuity  of  18  daller,  to  be  paid  from  the  income  of 
the  landed  estate  at  Herrtnmulhem,  and  also  a  silver  can  with  a  wild  mannikin 
on  the  lid.  To  her  nephew  Bartholdt  von  der  Eheren  an  annuity  of  18  rader- 
gulden  and  also  an  annuity  of  12  Khenish  gulden  from  the  estate  Steinenberg, 
in  the  Burgerstrasse,  and  a  silver  can  with  a  tower  on  the  lid.  Item  :  to  her 
nephew  AUexander  von  der  Eheren,  her  favorite,  an  annuity  of  100  golt-gulden 
from  the  Palitinate  on  the  Rhine,  and  also  27  golt-gulden  and  25  golt-gulden 
(annuities)  to  be  paid  at  the  cathedral  capital  in  Cologne,  and  an  annuity  of 
40  golt-gulden  also  to  be  paid  at  the  high  Cathedral  in  Cologne  ;  and  an  annuity 
of  45  golt-gulden  to  be  paid  from  the  estate  at  Munster,  in  Westphalia,  aud 
also  two  large  silver  cans  and  two  large  silver  cups  with  lids  ;  and  also  to  the 
same  three  large  silver  salvers,  two  dozen  silver  spoons,  two  silver  beer  pots, 
four  silver  salt  cellars  and  six  silver  cups  with  lids.  Also  to  said  AUexander 
and  Barbara  his  wife,  all  her  furniture  and  bedding  and  all  the  contents  of  her 
house  called  "  Zum  Schertfgen,"  together  with  all  her  remaining  cash,  monies, 
and  valuables  after  all  other  legacies  have  been  paid,  and  this  shall  include  all 
that  she  inherited  from  Brune  von  Blitterschwich,  Burgomaster  of  Cologne. 
Item :  to  Barbara  von  Harff,  her  nephew's  wife,  all  her  clothing,  also  20  old 
pieces  goltz  and  a  silver  and  gilt  crucifix  and  a  silver  rosary.  Item  :  she  relates 
that  she  has  loaned  to  Johan  von  Galen,  apothecary  at  "Zum  Wilden  Man," 
under  Wappensticken,  certain  monies  which  shall  be  collected.  And  she  gives 
to  all  her  other  relations  each  a  six-rader  albus.  She  appoints  Melchior  von 
Bolinxwerdt  and  Melchior  Kleindanck,  named  Mommerssloch,  and  Alexander 
von  der  Eheren  her  executors,  etc. 

Done  in  Cologne  in  the  house  of  Margaret  Questenberch  in  the  Klockengasse, 
in  the  parish  of  St.  Columben,  in  a  room  on  the  first  floor,  at  the  time  above 
named.  "Witnesses  :  Peter  Throm,  priest,  and  Thonis  Zimmerman,  citizen  of 
Cologne.  Justices :  Matthis  von  Thitz  and  Johan  Verris.  Notary  Public  : 
Christoffer  Kessell  von  Wanssura. 

(The  above  was  condensed  from  24  foolscap  pages  in  the  original.  The 
testatrix  added  a  codicil  of  five  pages  under  date  of  May  23,  1559,  but  it  was 
merely  to  confirm  and  strengthen  the  main  will,  and  made  no  new  devises. — 
Translator.) 


IX  GERMANY,  ENGLAND  AND  AMERICA.  9T 


WILL  OF  EBERHARDT  QUESTENBERGH. 
(Eoyal  State  Archives:  Diisseldorf :  Wills  of  Cologne  Citizens:  Lit:  Q.,  No.  .) 

In  the  name  of  God.  amen.  Be  it  known  to  all  to  whom  this  may  come,  that 
in  the  year  of  otir  dear  Lord  and  Savior  Jesus  Christ  1556.  and  in  the  Itli  year 
of  the  reign  of  the  most  illustriotis  and  pnissant  Prince  and  Lord  Maximilian, 
by  the  grace  of  God.  the  second  of  that  name,  chosen  Roman  Emperor,  etc.. 
etc..  there  personally  appeared  before  me.  notary,  the  wise  and  honorable 
gentlemen.  Casper  Andreas,  named  Sittarde.  and  Adolph  von  Bronwevler,  both 
Justices  of  the  Temporal  Electoral  Court  of  Cologne,  and  in  the  presence  of 
the  reptitable  witnesses  hereinafter  named — Ebeehaedt  QrESTZNBEEGH. 
priest,  of  sound  mind  and  intelligence  .  as  might  be  plainly  seen'  and  by  God's 
grace,  healthy  and  sound  in  body:  who  has  considered  under  God's  guidance, 
and  has  concluded  that  man's  intelligence  and  mind  become  weaker  from  dav 
to  day  as  he  grows  older,  and  that  he  is  subject  to  death,  and  that  there  is 
nothing  more  certain  than  death,  though  its  hour  is  uncertain  :  and  that  man 
is  therefore  not  always  able  to  execute  a  will. 

In  order  that  he.  after  his  departure  from  this  vale  of  tears,  may  not  be  f(xmd 
intestate,  and  especially  in  order  that  no  wrong,  dispute  or  controversv  mav 
arise  between  his  br>jthers  and  sisters  on  account  of  the  property  which  he  now 
possesses,  moveable  and  immoveable,  sititated  within  and  without  Cologne,  or 
found  in  his  coffers  or  in  debentures  after  his  death,  and  that  all  kindly  feeling 
and  affection  may  be  preserved — therefore,  and  to  that  end.  he  has  made, 
ordained  and  executed  of  his  own  free  and  premeditated  choice,  this  his  last 
will  and  testament,  in  manner  and  form  following  :  namely  : 

The  said  Eberhardt  revokes  and  annuls  hereby  all  and  every  former  wills  and 
testaments  or  other  dispositions  of  his  proj^erty.  however.  Avherever.  or  to 
whomsoever  the  same  may  have  been  made  or  declared  bef^u'e  this,  either 
verbally  or  in  vrriting.  and  ordains  that  they  shall  be  of  no  force  or  effect,  and 
that  this  instrument  alone  shall  be  and  remain  his  true  last  will  and  testament. 
The  testator  humbly  prays  that  after  his  death  his  soul  may  be  received  into 
eternal  bliss,  and  desires  that  his  dead  body  shall  be  buried  at  St.  Columben  : 
and  rec^uests  that  his  brother  Gerhardt.  the  executor  of  this  will,  shall  see  with 
respect  to  the  burial,  that  all  the  vigils,  commendations,  masses,  monthly  hours, 
and  yearly  times,  the  giving  of  alms  to  the  poor,  and  whatever  other  Christian 
ceremonies  may  be  necessary,  are  duly  performed,  so  that  everything  may  be 
done  according  to  sacred  usage,  as  well  as  to  the  testator's  station  in  life. 
And  further,  in  order  to  strengthen  this  will,  the  testator  bequeaths  to  the 
Archbishop  of  Cologne  who  may  be  oiSiciating  at  the  time  of  his  death,  a  tor- 
nisch.  or  in  lieu  thereof  live  raderschillingh  :  and  also  a  tornisch  or  in  lieu 
thereof  five  raderschillingh"  toward  the  building  of  the  high  Cathedral  at 
Cologne.  He  further  desires  that  when  all  his  debts  have  been  paid  and  can- 
celled, all  his  remaining  property  of  whatever  description  of  which  nothing  is 
excepted  shall  be  divided  among  his  l-rothers  and  sisters,  and  that  each  of 
them  shall  have  full  power  and  authority  to  use.  enjoy,  give  away  or  sell  his  or 
her  share,  according  to  their  will  or  necessity  :  and  as  one  or  more  of  his 
brothers  or  sisters  may  die  and  leave  offspring  in  holy  wedlock,  before  testator 
dies,  then  such  lawful  issue  of  the  deceased  shall  succeed ;  and  everything  that 


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would  have  been  inherited  under  this  will  by  him  or  her  deceased  shall  be 
inherited  by  their  lawful  children  in  as  full  and  complete  a  manner  as  their 
father  or  mother  would  have  inherited  it  if  they  had  lived.  It  is  the  testator's 
will  that  his  brothers  and  sisters  and  their  heirs  living  after  his  death  shall  take 
possession  of  all  his  property,  rents,  money,  interest  and  other  incomes,  and 
all  moveable  and  immoveable  goods,  to  have  and  to  hold,  use,  etc.,  by  virtue 
of  this  instrument.  The  testator  reserves  for  himself  the  right  to  revoke, 
increase  or  diminish  this  testament  and  to  substitute  another ;  and  he  appoints 
his  brother,  the  Honorable  Gerhardt  Questenbergh,  Justice,  as  his  executor, 
and  in  case  he  should  die  before  the  testator,  then  he  appoints  his  brother,  the 
Honorable  Bartoldt  Questenbergh,  and  for  the  labor  and  trouble  of  the  executor 
he  gives  him  two  silver  schalen,  which  he  shall  receive  after  the  death  of  the 
testator,  and  it  shall  be  the  first  payment  made. 

Done  in  the  City  of  Cologne,  in  the  house  of  the  Honorable  Barthold  Ques- 
tenberg,  named  "  zur  Lilien  op  der  Brugk,"  situated  in  the  parish  of  St. 
Columben,  down  stairs  in  the  large  room  facing  the  court.  Witnesses, 
Gerhardt  Wegks,  of  Mulheim  on  the  Rhur,  and  Matthias  Eingelberg,  of  Nid- 
derweisel,  both  residents  of  Cologne.  Notary  public,  Conradt  Brunsheim,  of 
Embeck. 

(This  will  abbreviated  and  condensed  as  to  non-essentials.— Translator). 


WILL  OF  BABON  GERHARDT  QUESTENBERGH. 

(Dusseldorf  Royal  Archives  ;  Wills  of  Cologne  Citizens.     Lit:  Q.  No.  22.) 

In  the  name  of  God  the  Mmighty,  amen.  Be  it  known  to  all  to  whom  this  may 
come  that,  after  the  birth  of  Christ  our  dear  Lord  and  Savior  when  we  counted 
and  wrote  1590,  in  the  fourth  indiction  of  the  Romerzinzaal,  under  the  rule 
and  government  of  the  most  illustrious,  puissant  and  anconquerable  Prince  and 
Lord,  Prince  Rudolph  (of  this  name  the  other)  chosen  Roman  Emperor  at  all 
times  of  several  domains  in  Germany,  Hungary,  Bohemia,  Dalmatia,  Crotia  and 
Slavonia ;  King,  and  Grand  Duke  of  Austria,  Duke  of  Burgundy,  Steyer, 
Karndt,  Crain  and  Wurtemberg,  Count  of  Tyrol ;  in  the  reign  of  our  most 
gracious  sovereign  His  Imperial  Majesty  of  the  Holy  Roman  Empire  in  the 
sixteenth  year  ;  on  Monday  the  17th  of  December,  personally  came  and  appeared 
before  me,  notary-public,  and  the  devout,  honorable  and  wise  Herr  Caspar 
Andre  of  Sittardt,  and  Peter  a  Fossa,  both  Justices  of  the  High  Temporal  Court, 
and  before  witnesses  especially  summoned  for  the  purpose — the  devout,  honor- 
able, wise  and  virtuous  Herr  Gerhaedt  Questenbeegh,  a  Justice  of  the  Tem- 
poral Court,  sound  of  body,  going  and  standing,  and  also  his  wife,  Cathrina 
zur  Laine,  who  is  afflicted  with  weakness  of  body  and  bed-ridden,  not  being 
able  to  walk  seven  feet ;  but  both  gifted  by  the  grace  of  God  the  Almighty  with 
sound  minds,  sense  and  understanding,  as  may  be  seen  and  discerned  by  every- 
body from  their  conversation  ;  and  both  these  married  people  have  permitted 
themselves  to  be  questioned,  one  after  the  other,  and  declared  that  they  had 
thoroughly  considered  and  reflected  that  all  people  are  by  nature  frail  and 
mortal  and  are  destined  to  die,  and  that  mankind  have  nothing  more  certain 
than  death  and  nothing  more  uncertain  than  the  hour  of  death  ;  therefore,  and 


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to  avoid  many  cares,  troubles  and  anxieties,  they  have  both  determined  and 
concluded  to  ordain,  make  and  declare  this  their  mutaal  reciprocal  testament, 
and  order  the  arrangement  and  disposition  of  their  last  will  to  be  made  in  the 
best  and  most  enduring  manner  and  form,  and  to  be  made  as  binding  and  forci- 
ble as  shall,  can,  or  maybe  possible  between  them,  and  the  one  with  the  other : 
as  follows  : 

Firstly:  both  these  married  people,  and  each  of  them,  hereby  cancel,  annul 
and  revoke  all  former  wills,  devises  and  bequests,  under  whatever  name,  that 
are  contrary  to  the  present  will  of  both  of  them. 

Secondly  :  it  is  the  hope  of  both  these  married  people  and  of  each  of  them 
that  at  the  determined  hour  of  their  natural  death  their  souls  may  be  granted 
eternal  happiness  in  the  grace  of  God  the  Almighty  through  the  merits  of  Christ 
Jesus  our  only  Redeemer,  and  that  their  bodies  may  be  l)uried  and  the  burials 
conducted  under  the  rites  of  the  Catholic  Church  :  and  it  is  their  sincere  hope 
that  they  shall  arise  at  the  last  day  of  judgment  with  all  true  Christians  to  bear 
witness  to  God's  grace  and  mercy. 

Thirdly:  both  these  married  people  will,  beqaeath,  and  wish  to  have  given 
by  the  survivor  of  them  a  thornisch  for  the  officiating  Lord  Archbishop  and 
Elector  of  Cologne, 

Fourthly  :  both  these  testating  married  people,  together  and  separately, 
give  a  tornisch  especially  to  aid  in  the  building  of  the  high  Cathedral  here  in 
Cologne,  under  an  appropriate  receipt,  to  be  executed  by  the  survivor. 

Fifthly  :  both  testating  married  people  name,  institute  and  make  (after  their 
decease)  their  natural  children  named  Entgenn,  Caspar,  Gerhardtenu.  Hermann, 
and  Johanu,  their  natural  heirs  in  equal  shares,  as  they  have  shown  filial 
obedience  and  have  given  no  cause  for  altering  or  changing  the  will  of  the  two 
testators  as  declared  by  both,  and  also  by  the  survivor. 

Sixthly :  These  testating  married  people  give,  one  to  the  other,  to  the  sur- 
vivor of  them,  full  power  and  authority  to  manage  their  children  which  they 
have  begotten  through  God's  providence,  and  have  educated  to  the  best  of  their 
ability.  They  both  are  heartily  inclined  and  intent  upon  bringing  benefits  to 
their  children,  therefore  the  one  has  full  confidence  in  the  other,  without  any 
fears  of  the  apprehended  death,  which  is  at  the  disposal  of  God's  most  merci- 
ful providence.  And  as  it  may  happen  in  the  future  that  one  or  more  of  the 
children  may  adopt  a  temporal  or  spiritual  calling  and  persist  therein  against 
the  wishes  of  the  remaining  and  last  living  parent,  the  survivor  shall  have 
power,  just  as  if  the  testating  couple  were  still  together  in  life,  to  exclude  and 
deprive  him  or  them  from  inheriting  any  of  their  father's  and  mother's  joint 
and  several  acquired,  inherited,  earned  and  gained  property,  and  to  have  full 
power  and  authority  to  give,  leave  and  bequeath  his  or  their  share  to  one  or 
the  other  or  to  all  of  the  obedient  and  filial  children  ;  and  what  the  survivor  of 
these  two  married  people  may  do,  order,  ordain,  declare,  or  add  to  or  take 
from  the  share  of  one  or  the  other  of  the  children  according  to  his  or  her  best 
judgment,  it  is  the  desire  of  both  these  testators  that  such  shall  be  fully  bind- 
ing, forceful  and  restrictive,  and  shall  be  of  the  same  effect  as  if  both  these 
married  people  had  executed,  ordained  and  bequeathed  it  jointly.  And  they 
give  notice  that  as  their  eldest  son,  Caspar,  has  modestly  requested  that  both 
these  testating  married  people  and  each  of  their  children  (whom  the  living 


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parents  cordially  love)  would  permit  that  lie  should  enter  the  Societat  Fratern- 
itatis,  as  he  has  reached  the  twentieth  year  of  his  age  and  is  so  far  advanced  in 
judgment  that  it  could  be  done  with  the  proper  understanding,  having  been 
prepared  thereto  ;  but  their  said  son  is  advised  to  wait. 

Experience  showing  that  the  will  of  none  may  be  respected,  therefore  if  any 
of  the  children  of  the  testators  shall  fail  in  due  obedience  and  respect,  then 
shall  the  surviving  parent  have  full  power  and  authority  to  disinherit  the  dis- 
obedient and  to  give  his,  her  or  their  share  to  the  obedient  ones  ;  and  this  is 
decreed  jointly  by  both  parents  by  virtue  of  this  instrument. 

Seventhly  ;  it  is  the  will  and  desire  of  both  testators  that  the  survivor  of  them 
shall  have  full  power  and  authority,  in  case  of  necessity,  to  take  1000  thaller 
for  his  or  her  own  special  use  and  purposes  and  to  expend  the  same  according 
to  his  or  her  own  will  or  pleasure,  or  to  give  or  bequeath  it  according  as  he  or 
she  may  please — neither  of  the  testators  doubting  that  the  survivor  of  them 
will  give  the  children  every  possible  benefit  and  advantage  ;  and  the  survivor 
shall  not  be  called  to  an  accounting  by  any  one  concerning  this  money,  nor  be 
responsible  to  any  one  for  it. 

Eighthly  :  the  testators  give  to  their  daughter  Entgin  in  advance  all  her 
mother's  clothing  and  jewelry,  on  account  of  her  obedience  and  good  behavior 
to  them,  and  desire  that  after  their  death  she  shall  share  in  all  their  property 
with  the  other  children,  share  and  share  alike,  if  the  surviving  testator  (as 
above  provided)  has  not  otherwise  ordered. 

Ninthly  and  lastly  :  both  palrents  have  selected  and  appointed — the  one  the 
other,  and  the  first  to  die  the  survivor — as  the  executor  of  this  their  last  will ; 
and  the  survivor  promises  the  one  first  to  die  to  execute  and  perform  it ;  and 
they  contract  the  one  with  the  other,  to  fully  perform  and  execute  this  their 
last  will  in  every  particular,  as  they  have  agreed.  (Here  follows  a  good  deal  of 
involved  and  complicated  legal  verbiage  which  does  not  appear  either  to  mean 
or  to  express  anything  in  particular. — Translator.) 

Done  and  performed  in  the  city  of  Cologne,  in  the  bedchamber  of  the  testa- 
tors in  their  house  situated  under  the  Goldschmiddten,  on  the  day  and  year 
aforesaid,  before  the  devout,  etc.,  Hermann  ther  Lain,  licentiate  of  law,  and 
Hermann  vonn  Affelen,  who  were  specially  summoned  as  witnesses. 

(Duly  attested  by  Caspar  Andree  and  Petrus  a  Fossa,  Judges  of  the  High 
Court  of  Cologne,  and  by  Johann  Krith,  notary  public,  "  by  virtue  of  papal  and 
imperial  authority."  The  long  and  involved  attestation  is  omitted. — Trans- 
lator.) 

WILL  OF  MARGARETHA  QUESTENBERGS. 

(Dusseldorf  State  Archives  ;  Wills  of  Cologne  Citizens ;  Lit:  Q.  No.  20.) 

In  the  name  of  the  Holy  Indivisible  Trinity,  of  God  the  Father,  the  Son,  and 
the  Holy  Ghost,  Amen.  I,  Maegaretha  Questenbergs,  make  known,  testify  and 
acknowledge  hereby  openly,  as  God  the  Almighty  has  called  me  in  these  my 
past  years  through  his  loving  kindness  and  mercy  to  the  Holy  Order  of  the 
Brigittiner,  therefore  I  thank  most  gratefully  his  Divine  grace  and  pray  him  to 
grant  me  his  further  support  in  the  execution  of  that  divine  estate,  that  I  may 
so  much  the  better  continue  the  holy  calling  I  have  begun,  and  with  less  difiQ- 


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culty  and  hindrance  of  all  worldly  thoughts  and  actions ;  and  to  my  greater 
sanctity  and  happiness.  Therefore,  in  order  that  after  the  completion  of  my 
vows,  or  after  my  natural  death,  no  misunderstanding,  contest  or  error  shall 
arise  on  account  of  my  worldly  goods,  I  mean  to  make  my  last  will  in  the  fol- 
lowing manner  ;  and  do  hereby  and  by  virtue  of  this  instrument  as  such  usually 
or  legally,  nuncupative  or  in  writing,  can,  shall,  or  may  be  made  best  and  most 
lasting:  and  inasmuch  as  the  same  may  not  be  as  I  intended, — as  testaments 
can  be  contested — it  is,  notwithstanding,  my  will  that  this  instrument  shall  be 
in  force,  valid  and  permanent,  as  a  codicil,  or  as  a  gift  on  account  of  death,  or 
among  the  living ;  also  a  testimony  of  God's  glory,  and  as  an  incentive  for 
pious  actions. 

And  therefore,  firstly,  I  revoke,  cancel  and  annul  those  wills  and  testaments 
I  made  on  May  30,  1623,  March  4,  1630,  and  March  1,  1632,  and  especially  do 
I  hereby  declare  as  of  no  force  and  effect  all  and  every  of  my  former  gifts, 
legacies  and  devises  in  so  far  as  they  are  contrary  to  this  my  last  will ;  and  I 
wish  to  have  the  following  disposition  accepted  as  my  true  last  will. 

Secondly,  I  wish  (upon  my  Christian  seclusion)  to  give  my  soul  to  Almighty 
God  my  creator  in  the  merits  of  my  Kedeemer  Jesus  Christ,  thro'  the  interces- 
sion of  the  most  holy  Virgin  Mary,  of  the  Holy  Briggitta,  and  of  all  the  dear 
Saints  and  the  Lord's  chosen  ones  :  and  I  leave  my  body  here  in  this  Cloister 
to  be  returned  to  the  earth  from  whence  it  came,  according  to  the  customs  of 
the  order. 

Thirdly,  I  give  to  the  officiating  Archbishop  of  Cologne  a  turnisch,  and 
towards  the  erection  of  the  high  Cathedral  here  also  a  turniscli,  or  its  value, 
and  desire  that  the  value  thereof  be  paid  them  once  for  all ;  further,  I  bequeath 
to  the  children  (my  dear  nieces)  of  Mr.  Caspar  Eahmans  and  his  wife  Gertrude 
Kannengiessers— namely,  to  Margareth  300  and  to  Elizabeth  200  Cologne  daler, 
each  valued  at  52  albus ;  then  I  bequeath  to  my  dear  cousin  Caspar  and  to  my 
niece  Catharina  Averdunck  each  200  reichs  daller ;  and  besides  this  I  bequeath 
to  the  licentiate  Mr.  Johann  Falckenberg,  four  rose  nobles. 

Item.  To  Mettelen  von  der  Linden  and  wnttiben  Buschman  25  daler  each  at 
52  Cologne  albus  ;  to  my  dear  cousin  Otto  von  Furden  and  my  niece  Gertrude 
von  Furden  and  wittiben  Hardenraths  I  bequeath  each  50  gold-gulden;  to  the 
Fathers  of  the  Society  of  Jesus  here  in  Cologne  I  bequeath  1,000  Cologne 
daler,  each  valued  at  52  albus,  to  pray  to  God  for  me  and  for  my  dear  old 
parents  and  for  my  brother  ;  to  the  Cloister  in  the  Burghoff  at  St.  Nicholas  I 
bequeath  500  Cologne  daler  to  found  therewith  a  weekly  mass,  and  in  the  same 
to  remember  me,  my  ancestors  and  my  relatives  in  prayer,  and  also  to  illumi- 
nate the  image  of  St.  Anna  there.  To  the  church  and  pastor  at  St.  Columben 
I  bequeath  200  Cologne  daler  so  that  the  officiating  pastor  may  enjo}'-  its 
income  or  annual  interest,  and  always  take  diligent  care  that  the  Questenberg 
mass  there  be  kept  up  properly  every  Sunday  and  holy  day  during  his  ministry. 
To  the  Convent  in  the  Thornissgasse  I  bequeath  and  leave  500  Cologne  daler, 
and  they  shall  therefor  at  all  times  whenever  necessary  wash  and  clean  all 
paramenia  and  sacerdotalia  ornamenta  belonging  to  the  altar  of  St.  Barbara  at 
St.  Columben.  To  the  Augustine  and  Minnen  Brothers  here  in  Cologne 
(because  I  belong  to  the  Brotherhood)  I  bequeath  each  100  Cologne  daler,  and 
they  shall  therefor  remember  me  appropriately  at  all  times  in  their  prayers. 


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which  legacy  my  hereunder  appointed  executor  shall  pay  and  discharge  within 
one  year  after  my  decease,  from  the  inherited  property,  rents  and  tolls  left  by 
me.  My  moveables  and  horses  and  carriages  I  myself  have  given  to  and 
divided  among  my  spiritual  and  secular  friends  and  acquaintances ;  and  that 
which  remained  I  have  given  and  donated  of  my  own  free  will,  irrevocably,  to 
the  Cloister  Maria  Sion.  Above  all  I  leave  and  bequeath  to  the  noble-born 
Lord  Hermann,  Count  "von  Questenberg,  Lord  of  Gross-Kolschaw  and  Pomeisel 
and  Imperial  Councillor  of  His  Imperial  Majesty,  my  dear  cousin  and  god- 
father, and  to  his  gracious  son,  my  godchild,  my  dwelling  on  the  Bruggen, 
together  with  the  house  next  to  it,  of  which  one  is  called  "  In  der  Lilien"  and 
the  other  "Maintz,"  to  have,  hold  and  possess  them  in  their  own  and  indis- 
putable right ;  and  I  hereby  ordain  and  confirm  what  I  have  promised  to  my 
said  godchild. 

Now,  as  the  institution  of  the  heir  is  the  main  and  essential  work  of  every 
testamentorial  instrument,  I  therefore  devise  all  my  immoveable  inheritance, 
goods,  tolls  and  rents,  situated  within  and  without  the  city  of  Cologne,  to  my 
true  and  undoubted  executor  (for  my  moveables  have  already  been  given  away, 
as  above-mentioned),  to-wit  :  the  Cloister  of  Maria  Sion  in  this  city  (wherein  I 
hope  to  achieve  by  God's  grace  the  salvation  of  my  soul,  and  to  end  my  life) 
which  I  wish  to  have  named,  placed  and  instituted,  and  hereby  and  by  virtue 
of  this  instrument  do  name,  place,  and  institute  the  same  as  my  executor,  as  in 
the  best  and  most  enduring  manner  it  could,  should  or  might  be  done,  direct- 
ing and  commanding  them-  within  one  year  after  my  death  (which  may  the 
merciful  God  in  His  kindness  send  me  in  his  own  good  time)  to  execute  the 
above-named  legacies  and  to  transfer  the  inheritance  specified  as  situated  on 
the  Bruggen  to  my  dear  noble-born  cousin  and  godfather  Lord  Hermann,  Count 
von  Questenbergh  and  his  gracious  son,  my  godchild. 

Sixthly,  I  hereby  also  will  that  my  dear  noble-born  cousin  and  godfather. 
Lord  Hermann,  Count  von  Questenberg,  on  account  of  the  affection  I  bear 
him,  reserve  and  keep  for  himself  my  above-named  inheritance,  rents  and  tolls, 
to  keep  and  collect  the  same,  and  that  His  Grace  shall  have  power  after  my  de- 
parture from  this  temporary  life  to  have  them  transferred  to  himself  from  my 
aforementioned  executor,  the  Cloister  Maria  Sion,  so  that  His  Grace  may  enjoy 
the  said  legacies  fully,  without  any  deduction  falcediee  trebellianicse,  or  under 
whatever  form  it  may  be  done,  within  the  specified  time.  And  I  leave  to  the 
said  Cloister  Maria  Sion  (in  memory  of  me  and  my  family)  as  its  inheritance 
and  property,  my  wine-garden  situated  in  the  Ortmansgasse,  and  also  the  income 
of  the  1,000  gold-gulden  which  my  dear  deceased  father  loaned  to  the  Burgo- 
master and  Council  of  the  city  of  Cologne  in  the  year  1590  ;  and  also  3,000 
gold-gulden  in  gold,  or  its  value,  absolutely,  without  any  deduction  falcedise 
trebelianicae,  or  under  whatever  form  it  may  be  done,  to  be  paid  in  cash  and  so 
delared  within  half  a  year  after  my  natural  death,  and  before  the  close  of  the 
whole  year  to  execute  and  pay  fully  the  above-named  legacies  and  the  3,000 
gold-gulden  to  the  Cloister  Sion,  and  to  liquidate  the  Rheinfeld  claim  and  all 
other  demands,  burdens  and  debts ;  which  Cloister  is  also  to  be  paid  outstand- 
ing house-rents,  rents,  tolls  and  incomes  which  may  accrue  during  my  life  and 
also  up  to  the  time  of  my  death,  or  may  become  due  during  the  year  after  my 
death  ;  and  it  is  also  to  have  and  enjoy  under  satisfactory  receipts  the  above- 


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named  legacies  and  the  paid-over  and  receipted  3,000  gold-gulden  mentioned 
above.  Then  His  Grace  shall  also  arrange  a  satisfactory  reversion  of  the  annual 
rents  due  and  assigned  to  the  Cloister  and  also  all  other  remaining  rent-orders, 
letters,  seals,  schi^einf  uss  and  other  ^vritten  documents  relating  to  my  properties, 
goods  and  rents  exclusive  of  the  aforesaid  loan  of  1,000  gold-gulden  to  the 
present  Burgomaster  and  Council  and  those  that  refer  to  the  wine  garden  in  the 
Ortmansgasse  (which  shall  remain  the  inheritance  and  property  of  the  aforesaid 
Cloister,  besides  the  3,000  gold-gulden).  But  should  such  execution  and  pay- 
ment of  these  legacies  and  the  3,000  gold-gulden  not  take  place  before  the 
expiration  of  the  year,  then  the  aforesaid  Cloister  Sion  shall  remain  exclusively 
my  instituted  heir  in  all  my  aforesaid  legacies,  goods  and  rents,  and  the 
bequests  devised  to  my  dear  noble  cousin  and  godfather,  Lord  Hermann.  Count 
von  Questenbergh.  shall  then  be  closed  and  terminated.  And  I  further  will 
and  bequeath  to  the  aforesaid  Cloister  Sion  whatever  property  may  come  to  me 
by  the  death  of  relatives  or  friends  to  have  an  heir's  right  as  an  inheritance  and 
to  hold,  to  sell  or  to  transfer,  as  it  may  hapjoen  to  please  them.  I  have  how- 
ever expressly  reserved  to  myself  in  this  instrument,  and  do  hereby  reserve  by 
virtue  of  this  my  last  will  before  notary,  justices  and  witnesses,  and  also  under 
my  hand  and  signature,  the  right  to  change,  to  increase,  to  decrease,  to  totally 
annul  and  revoke  this  will  and  to  substitute  another  in  its  place,  and  to  order 
that  anything  I  may  add,  diminish  or  increase  herein  shall  be  binding  and  in 
full  force  none  the  less  than  if  it  were  embodied  herein  word  for  word. 

Finally,  I  have  signed  this  my  last  will  with  my  own  hand,  deliberately,  and 
after  due  consideration,  and  have  sealed  it  with  the  usual  seal  of  my  dear 
deceased  noble  father  (which  I  have  also  used  at  all  times  and  have  kept  as  my 
own  to  please  him)  and  thereafter  have  sealed  it  with  a  ribbon,  and  also  affirmed 
it  on  the  outside  with  my  own  hand  and  with  my  deceased  and  noble  father's 
seal,  all  in  the  presence  of  the  justices,  notary  and  witnesses  whom  I  have 
specially  chosen  and  called  for  that  purpose ;  and  I  have  acknowledged  this 
instrument  to  them  as  my  last  will,  after  which  (in  order  to  keep  it  secret  and 
private)  it  was  legally  signed  in  their  presence  (while  they  were  looking  on; 
inside  and  outside,  and  sealed  and  closed  in  the  form  of  a  nuncupative  testa- 
ment or  as  a  document,  as  a  codicil,  a  devise  by  reason  of  death  or  other  free 
contract  among  the  living,  as  it  may  or  might  or  could  be  done  legally  in  the 
best  form  and  according  to  custom,  and  also  in  accordance  with  sacred  usages. 

Done  in  Cologne  in  the  Cloister  of  St.  Maria  Sion,  in  the  year  of  our  dear 
Lord  Jesus  Christ  1636.  Thursday.  January  31st. 

[l.  s.]  Makgaeetta  von  Questenbekgh. 

Brief  on  the  Outside  of  the  Will. 

This  is  my.  Margaretta  von  Questenbergh's,  last  will,  which  I  have  declared 
and  executed  in  this  manner  after  full  deliberation,  this  January  31st  in  the 
year  1636.  Maegeketta  von  Questenbeegh.    [l.  s.] 

Walramus  Blanckenberg  ad  hoc  requisitus  subscripsit  et  sigillnavit  anno  1636. 
31  Januarij.  [l.  s.] 

Arnoldus  Calenius  ad  hoc  requisitus  subscripsit  et  subsignavit  anno  1636, 
31  Januarij.  [l.  s.] 


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MEMORIALS  OF  THE  QUISENBERRY  FAMILY 


At  the  request  and  solicitation  of  the  aforesaid  testatrix,  Margaretta  von 
Questenbergh,  I,  Hermannus  Happenium,  after  Her  Grace  had  declared  this 
to  be  her  last  will,  and  signed  it  inside  and  also  above  with  her  own  hand,  and 
also  sealed  it  with  her  father's  seal  instead  of  her  own,  together  with  the  other 
hereinafter  named  witnesses,  as  an  attestation  of  its  authenticity  have  signed 
it  with  my  own  hand  and  sealed  with  my  usual  seal.  Done  this  31st  January 
in  the  year  1636.  [l.  s.J 

Similarly  have  I,  Joannes  Staell  sacellanus  ecclesia,  St.  Joannis  Bapt  : 
licentiat  minimus,  upon  the  request  of  the  virgin  testatrix,  and  in  attestation 
and  witness  of  authenticity,  subscribed  with  my  own  hand  and  sealed  with  my 
usual  seal.    Also  done  this  31  January,  1636.  [l.  s.] 

(Antonius  Huntum,  Joannes  Will,  and  Jan  Brantthoff,  made  attestations 
similar  to  Staell's  ;  and  so  did  Joannes  Wickhovius,  of  Cologne,  except  that  he 
sealed  with  the  usual  seal  of  the  co-witness  Joannes  Will,  on  account  of  having 
none  of  his  own.  Joannes  Vackel,  tutor,  also  made  a  similar  attestation,  using 
the  seal  of  Anthony  Hontum.) 

In  God's  name,  amen.  Be  it  hereby  known  to  all  that  in  the  year  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ  1636,  in  the  fourth  indiction  of  the  Romerzinzaal,  but  under 
the  rule  and  government  of  the  most  illustrious,  puissant  and  unconquerable 
Prince  and  Lord,  Prince  Ferdinand  (of  that  name  the  other)  by  the  grace  of 
God  chosen  Roman  Emperor  at  all  times  of  several  domains  in  Germany,  of 
Hungary,  Bohemia,  Dalmatia,  Croatia  and  Slavonia,  King  and  Grand  Duke  of 
Austria,  Duke  of  Burgundy,  Steyer,  Carndt,  Crain  and  Wurtemberg,  Count  of 
Hapsburg,  Tyroll  and  Gortz ;  in  the  reign  of  our  most  gracious  Prince  and 
Lord  His  Imperial  Majesty  of  the  Roman  Empire  in  the  seventeenth,  of  the 
Hungarian  in  the  eighteenth,  of  the  Bohemian  in  the  nineteenth  year,  on 
Thursday,  January  31,  about  the  third  hour  after  noon,  I  have  summoned 
before  myself  in  the  above-mentioned  Cloister  Maria  Sion,  in  the  front  room 
up  stairs,  the  noble,  much  honored  and  virtuous  virgin  Margaretta  von  Ques- 
tenberg,  a  novice  of  the  Sacred  Order  of  Saint  Brigitta  here  in  Cologne,  sound 
in  body,  going  and  standing,  and  also  of  good  intelligent  speech,  mind  and 
reason,  as  may  be  easily  seen  and  discerned  ;  also  the  devout,  highly-learned 
Herr  Walramum  Blanckenberg  and  Arnoldum  Calenium,  respectively  doctor  of 
law  and  licentiate,  and  Justices  of  the  High  Temporal  Court  here  in  Cologne, 
before  me,  Laurentium  Mey,  Imperial  imraatriculated  notary  public,  and  also 
the  above-named  witnesses,  namely :  Hermannus  Happenium,  Joannes  Staell, 
Arnoldus  Honthum,  Joannes  Wickhovius,  Joannes  Will,  Joannes  Vackell  and 
Joannes  BrandthofF,  and  upon  their  appearance  I  submitted  this  identical 
parchment  and  announced  and  declared  expressly  and  in  plain  words  that  the 
instrument  (and  they  so  understanding  it)  was  the  disposition  and  institution 
of  her  last  will,  and  had  been  signed  on  the  inside  with  her  own  hand  in  the 
presence  of  us  all  and  also  sealed  with  the  usual  seal  of  her  deceased  noble 
father  instead  of  with  her  own,  and  afterwards  tied  with  a  red  and  white 
ribbon ;  and  also  attested  on  the  outside  with  her  own  signature  and  her 
noble  father's  seal ;  and  thereafter  the  aforementioned  justices  and  also  the 
notary  and  witnesses  were  separately  asked  and  requested  by  her  to  witness 
this  act  and  to  attest  this  the  disposition  of  her  last  will  with  their  respective 
signatures  and  seals.    Thereupon  I,  notary  of  the  testatrix,  above  all  was  to 


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prepare  one  or  more  open  instrument  or  instruments  for  the  fee,  and  to  add 
especially  an  attestation  to  this  testament  ;  and  then  not  to  deny  nor  to  refuse 
this  wish  of  the  said  virgin  testatrix,  the  aforementioned  justices  and  witnesses 
have  acceded  thereto,  and  upon  request  have  respectively  confirmed  and 
attested  it  with  their  signatures  as  may  be  seen  from  what  precedes,  also  their 
seals ;  all  of  which  they  soon  afterwards  acknowledged  fully  in  the  best  of  all 
manners  before  me,  the  notary,  and  the  devout  and  respected  Joannes  Mey- 
putz,  of  Newkirchen,  and  Joannes  Krieckel,  of  Walpenberg,  who  were 
separately  called  for  that  purpose  and  are  reputable  witnesses ;  whereupon  I, 
notary,  after  all  and  everything  above-described  had  occurred  as  a  continuous 
act,  as  related,  prepared  therefrom  the  present  public  instrument  (which,  on 
account  of  other  business,  has  been  engrossed  by  my  amanuensis)  and  have 
signed  the  same  with  my  own  hand,  and  have  also  attested  it  with  my  own 
usual  notarial  seal  as  especially  required  for  attestation  and  witness  of 
authenticity.    Actum  ut  supra.  [l.  s.] 

WILL  OF  LORD  CONSTANTIXE  FEEDIXAND,  COUNT  von  QUESTEX- 

BERG. 

(Royal  Archives,  Dusseldorf :  Wills  of  Cologne  Citizens:  Lit:  Q.  No.  18a.) 

In  the  name  of  the  Most  Holy  Indivisible  Trinity,  Amen  :  Be  it  known  to 
all  who  may  see,  read  or  hear  this,  that  in  the  year  164:6  after  the  holy  birth 
of  our  dear  Lord  and  Savior  Jesus  Christ,  under  the  rule  and  government  of 
our  Sovereign  Prince  and  Lord,  Lord  Ferdinand,  of  this  name  the  third,  chosen 
Roman  Emperor  and  at  all  times  ruler  of  several  of  the  countries  in  Germany — ■ 
Hungary,  Bohemia,  Dalmatia.  and  Crotia  :  and  King  of  Slavonia,  Grand  Duke 
of  Austria,  Duke  of  Burgundy,  Steyer,  Carneia,  Crain  and  Wurtemberg  ;  Count 
of  Tyrol  and  Hapsburg  :  in  the  12th  year  of  the  reign  of  him,  our  most  gracious 
Lord  His  Imperial  Majesty  of  the  Holy  Roman  Empire,  and  in  the  Holy  Em- 
pire's  free  city  of  Cologne,  on  Wednesday  the  3d  of  June,  before  the  well-born, 
devout  and  highly-learned  Sir  Johaun  Jacob  Weyerstrass  and  Johan  Michael 
Hermanni,  doctors  of  the  law,  aud  both  Justices  of  the  High  Temporal  Court, 
to  me  Johann  Dietrich  Clandt,  an  immatriculated  and  approved  Norary  by 
virtue  of  the  power  vested  in  the  Pope  and  His  Roman  Imperial  Majesty,  and 
further  to  those  hereafter-named  trustworthy  and  especially  qualified  witnesses, 
personally  has  come  and  appeared  Lord  Coxstantine  Feedinand,  Count  von 
QuESTENBERG,  begotten  son  of  the  noble  Lord  Hermann,  Count  von  Questen- 
berg,  Lord  of  Gross-Kolschaw,  Pomeisel,  Strogetitz,  and  Erdtberg,  Court 
Councillor  of  His  Roman  Imperial  Majesty,  and  his  also  noble  wife  Elizabetha 
Constantia  (born  von  Lyskirchen) — and  has  verbally  and  clearly  declared  and 
said  that  he,  by  undoubted  inspiration  of  the  Holy  Ghost  and  the  will  of  Divine 
mercy,  of  his  own  free  will  and  well-considered  intention,  without  any  threats, 
force,  fear,  or  any  other  persuasion  or  inducement,  has  decided  in  his  heart  and 
mind  to  take  the  spiritual  vows  of  the  Cloister  of  the  Discalceaten  of  the  Order 
of  St.  Theresa,  situated  here  in  Cologne,  and  has  entered  and  closed,  and  taken 
the  name  of  Frater  Celestinvs  a  Jesu  Maria,  and  as  his  year  of  probation  is 
completed  and  finished,  he  has  finally  resolved  and  concluded  to  accept  this 
station  forever,  perform  his  profession,  and  serve  Almighty  God  there  and  in 


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that  Order  (which  may  be  a  divine  honor  to  it  and  salvation  and  blessedness  to 
his  soul)  all  the  days  of  his  life.  And  further,  that  he,  of  his  own  free  will  and 
well-considered  intention,  had  informed  his  dearest  noble  father  and  mother 
before  this,  and  has  received  their  consent,  with  their  wishes  of  Divine  bless- 
ing ;  and  he  also  declared  himself  sound  of  body  and  mind,  extra  clausuram', 
of  his  pleasure,  going,  standing  and  speaking  before  this  of  his  profession  (by 
which  he  suffers  a  spiritual  death  with  respect  to  the  world  and  its  possessions) 
yet  he  has  a  free  will  over  that  property  which  his  honored  parents  have  given 
him  for  his  free  disposition  ;  and  further  that  he  has  resolved  to  give  and  dis- 
pose of  it ;  and  he  first  of  all  declared  himself  to  be  of  sound  and  free  mind, 
and  more  than  seven  feet  tall ;  that  he  dedicated  his  most  valuable  treasure,  the 
soul  entrusted  to  him,  both  now  and  at  the  time  of  its  leaving  his  body,  to  the 
mercy  of  God,  in  order  that  He  may  give  him  in  the  Holy  Order  mercy  and  aid, 
and  after  death  immeasurable  bliss  and  happiness  through  the  intervention  of 
the  most  holy  Virgin  Mary,  of  the  holy  Father  Joseph,  and  the  holy  Mother 
Theresa ;  but  he  ordered  however  that  his  body  be  interred  according  to  the 
customs  of  the  Holy  Order.  He  desires  that  his  much-beloved  noble  father  and 
mother  shall  pray  diligently  for  him,  the  noble  testator,  and  deposes  that  from 
true  paternal  love  and  affection  they  desire  to  honor  God  Almighty  and  the 
Holy  Order ;  and  that  they  have  declared  to  him,  their  son,  of  their  own  free 
will  and  out  of  love  to  him,  that  besides  the  payment  of  both  vestiments  and 
the  necessary  costs  of  his  profession  they  will  also  give  and  deliver  to  him  in  a 
lawful  manner,  once  for  all,  the  sum  of  7,000  Cologne  thaler,  each  valued  at  52 
albus. 

In  consideration  of  this  the  noble  testator  made  this  further  deposition  :  that 
he  bequeaths  a  dwelling  situated  in  Serineo  S.  Columbae  descending  from  the 
Questenberg  family  and  called  "  zum  Mayntz,"  together  with  the  rented  house 
descended  to  him  from  his  deceased  maiden  aunt  Margaret  von  Questenberg, — 
to  his  noble  father,  reserving  in  every  way  the  rental ;  but  certain  dwellings 
(in  addition  to  being  encumbered  with  ten  gold- gulden  of  perpetual  ground- 
rent)  were  so  old,  dilapidated  and  decayed  that  he  did  not  find  it  advisable  to 
invest  the  Holy  Order  therewith ;  and  he  therefore  so  requested  and  induced 
his  dear  parents  that  they  resolved  upon  the  acceptance  of  the  property  and 
perpetual  ground  rent,  and  to  give  therefore  3,000  thaler  for  the  equal  and  free 
disposition  of  the  noble  exponitis  ;  and  as  this  resolution  of  his  much  honored 
parents  (made  out  of  love  for  him)  shall  become  a  special  gratification  to  the 
Order,  he  therefore  accepts  it  with  great  gratitude  and  with  filial  obedience, 
not  doubting  but  the  most  gracious  God  will  repay  the  good  deed  and  kindness 
in  other  ways  to  their  benefit. 

While  then  the  before-mentioned  Lord  Hermann,  Count  von  Questenberg, 
Lord  of  Gross-Kolschaw,  Pomeisel,  Strogetitz  and  Erdtberg,  Court  Councillor 
of  His  Roman  Imperial  Majesty,  together  with  his  consort  the  noble  Eliza- 
betha  Constantina,  Countess  von  Questenburg  (born  von  Lyskirchen)  before 
the  aforementioned  Justices  of  the  Temporal  Court,  before  me.  Notary,  and 
before  the  witnesses  named  at  the  end,  personally  appeared,  and  of  their  own 
free  will  declared  that  they  had  bequeathed  and  undertaken  by  virtue  of  this 
instrument  and  will  to  substantially  dispose  in  favor  of  their  aforementioned 
son,  not  only  the  sum  amounting  in  all  to  10,000  Cologne  thaler,  but  also  to 
pay  the  same  according  to  his  future  order. 


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lOI 


By  virtue  of  this  the  variously-mentioned  noble  testator  has  closed,  annulled 
and  cancelled  all  and  every  contract  and  donation,  however  named  or  contrary  in 
any  way  to  the  intention  of  this  his  last  will ;  and  he  does  this  hereby,  and  by 
virtue  of  the  same  authorizes  that  there  be  given  to  the  fjresent  Lord  Arch- 
bishop of  Cologne,  and  the  Lord  Prince  Elector  of  Cologne,  as  also  for  the  pur- 
pose of  aiding  in  the  building  of  the  high  Cathedral  here  in  Cologne,  each  a 
tornisch^  or  the  proper  value  thereof,  once  for  all.  In  accordance  herewith  he 
declared  with  well-considered  mind,  free  will,  and  by  his  own  impulse,  that  the 
following  disposition  shall  be  made  (deducting  .  .  ,  and  the  professional 
costs  connected  with  the  10,000  Cologne  thaler)  namely  :  1,000  shall  be  paid  in 
cash  and  given  to  the  Convent  here  in  Cologne,  as  also  for  its  disposition  ;  1,000 
to  Prague;  and  1,000  to  the  holy  nuns  of  the  Discalceaten  Order  here  in  the 
Schnurgasse  ;  these  three  places  (here  and  at  the  aforementioned  Prague)  to 
receive  the  sums  in  cash,  after  he  has  taken  his  final  vov/s.  Further,  the  noble 
disponents  directs  for  the  erection  of  an  Erimitory  in  their  convent  situated  in 
this  free  city  of  Cologne  of  the  Holy  Empire,  2,000  of  the  aforementioned 
thaler,  so  that  they  will  be  applied  in  this  matter  without  doubt,  and  to  that 
end  are  to  be  paid  before  the  end  of  the  year. 

And  thirdly  it  is  the  will  of  the  noble  testator  that  in  the  year  1649,1,000 
Cologne  thaler,  and  in  the  year  1650,  1,000  similar  thaler,  each  time  before  the 
end  of  the  years  named,  shall  be  paid — the  one  to  the  convent  here,  and  the 
other  to  the  Holy  Discalceaten  Nuns  in  the  Schnurgasse  for  the  building  of  their 
cloister;  from  which  first  1,000  the  Convent  of  the  P.  P.  Discalceatorum  here 
shall  give  to  the  convent  of  the  same  order  at  Regenspurg  300  thaler  for  the 
liquidation  of  that  indebtedness  with  which  it  is  burdened  by  Marxen  von  Bey- 
weg,  and  thereafter  500  reichs  thaler  to  the  convent  of  the  same  Order  at  Augs- 
purg  for  the  purpose  of  satisfying  Lord  Kasper  Acht  and  Lady  Gertrude  Broel- 
mans  heirs  pretensions  :  but  with  the  condition  that  where  the  said  indebted- 
ness amounts  to  a  greater  sum  it  shall  be  paid  by  them,  and  that  the  aforemen- 
tioned convent  at  Augspurg  first  be  given  200  reichs  thaler  which  have  lately 
been  bequeathed  to  them  (on  April  7th)  m  testamentis  Fra  :  Cle7nentis  a  Corona, 
'Spinea,  of  the  present  convents  professi,  given  for  the  benefit  of  this  convent ; 
otherwise,  however,  and  in  .  .  .  only,  300  reichs  thaler  to  be  given  for  the 
payment  of  the  above-mentioned  indebtedness  of  the  Convent  of  the  P.  P. 
Discalceatorum  at  Augspurg ;  and  afterwards  to  the  convent  at  Trient  of  the 
same  Order  100  Cologne  thaler;  and  to  the  Convent  Eremi  in  Belgium,  not  far 
from  the  city  of  Namur,  50  similar  thaler. 

Fourthly,  the  noble  testator  wills  that  from  the  eighth  1,000  thaler  the  follow- 
ing legacies  shall  be  executed  by  his  much-beloved  lady-mother  at  her  first 
opportunity,  and  if  possible  before  the  expiration  of  this  year  ;  namely  :  to  the 
highly  venerable  noble-born  Lord  Johann  Conradt  von  Lyskirchen  .  .  .  ;  to 
his  much-beloved  noble  uncle  St.  Cuniberte  of  Cologne,  150  Cologne  thaler  as 
a  remembrance  ;  to  the  Arch-Brotherhood  of  the  Holy  Rosary  among  the  Holy 
Dominicans,  150  thaler ;  to  the  Fathers  of  the  Brotherhood  of  the  Society  of 
the  Annunciation  of  the  Virgin  Mary,  150  Cologne  thaler;  to  the  Brotherhood 
of  the  Holy  Cross  among  the  Capucins  here,  150  Cologne  thaler  at  cassam  insti- 
tute, and  in  so  far  as  it  is  not  used  for  any  ornamental  purposes  it  shall  be  dis- 
posed according  to  the  will,  desire,  wishes  and  order  of  his  much-beloved  lady- 


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mother.  He  also  bequeaths  to  his  much-beloved  cousin  the  noble-born  Eliza- 
beth Constantia  von  Lyskirchen,  and  to  his  much-beloved  sister  the  noble-born 
maiden  Elizabeth  Constantia,  Countess  von  Questenberg,  each  75  Cologne  thaler, 
for  their  free  disposal;  and  to  the  most  venerable  noble-born  Nun,  Margaretta 
von  Lyskirchen,  present  Abbess  of  the  Cloister  of  St.  Aprum;  and  also  to  the 
devout  noble-born  Gertrude  Trudt  von  Lyskirchen,  novitiate  at  St.  Gertrude's 
here ;  and  finally  to  his  kinsman  the  right  reverend  P.  Johann  Averdunck,  of 
the  Society  of  Priests, — to  each  of  the  same  50  thaler  in  remembrance.  And 
to  his  much-beloved  cousin  von  Lyskirchin,  the  holy  nun  at  St.  Cecelia,  20 
thaler  ;  to  the  right  reverend  highly-learned  Johann  Bolte,  his  former  confessor, 
of  the  Society  of  the  Priests  of  Jesus,  18;  and  to  Johann  Pingio,  pastor  in 
Lechenich,  in  acknowledgement  of  his  good  .  .  .  20  of  the  aforesaid  thaler, 
with  the  request  that  they  procure  therewith  a  glass  window  for  the  pastoral 
dwelling  at  Lechenich. 

Finally,  the  noble  testator  bequeaths  to  the  convent  here  the  remaining2,000 
thaler,  which  however  shall  not  be  paid  to  the  benefit  of  the  convent  here 
before  the  death  of  his  dear  parents,  as  the  times  offer  a  better  investment,  and 
it  might  be  their  opportunity  and  good  will  to  pay  it  earlier,  and  to  lay  the 
foundation  of  a  Cloister  either  on  the  Rhine  or  the  Moselstrohm ;  and  if  such 
can  be  done  .  .  .  ;  and  by  virtue  of  the  fundamental  law  of  all  testaments 
institutio  heredis  the  noble  testator  institutes,  names  and  orders  (without  force 
or  pressure)  the  heirs  to  his  certain,  true,  right  and  undoubted  testament,  also 
its  executors,  the  noble-born  Lord  Hermann,  Count  von  Questenberg,  Lord  of 
Gross-Kolschaw,  Pomeisel,  Strogetitz  and  Erdtberg,  Imperial  Councillor  of 
His  Roman  Imperial  Majesty,  and  Countess  Elizabetha  Constantina  von  Ques- 
tenberg (born  von  Lyskirchen),  his  much  beloved  noble  father  and  mother,  and 
with  them  also  the  noble-born  Lord  Norbert  Hermann,  Count  von  Questenberg, 
and  Lady  Elizabetha  Constantina,  Countess  von  Questenberg,  his  noble  brother 
and  sister,  according  to  the  disposition  of  all  his  estate  real  and  personal,  cases 
of  inheritance,  death  and  accident  which  might  befal  the  noble  testator  now  or 
later,  quoqunque  modo,  not  to  change  it  to  succediren,  but  to  manage  and 
handle  as  it  pleases  them  without  the  intervention  or  opposition  of  any  one: 
And  the  frequently-mentioned  noble  testator,  again  and  again  thanking  his 
highly-honored  dear  parents  for  everything  given  him  for  his  free  use  and  dis- 
position.   .    .  . 

(The  balance  of  this  will — about  half  a  page — is  obliterated  and  lost). 


THE  QUESTENBERG  FAMILY  OF  COLOGNE. 
(From  Fahne's  Cologne,  Julie  and  BergJiish  Families,  I,  345-'6.) 

QuESTENBEKG. — A  CologuB  family  which,  remarkable  as  it  is,  rose  in  three 
generations  from  ordinary  burghers  to  Baron,  Count,  Imperial  Count,  and 
Prince.    The  genealogy  is  as  follows : 

1.  B.  von  Questenberg.    Children:  1.  Henricus,  m.  Cath.  ;  2.  Johes ; 

3.  Bertold,  m.  Margherita  von  Blitterswich,  1471 ;  4.  Goddert,  m.  Christina 
Schlasgin. 


IX  GERMANY,  EXGLAXD  AXD  AMERICA. 


II.  Bertold  von  Questenberg  '3  aboYe\  Children;  1.  JoJian.  m.  Christina 
YOU  Aich  :  2.  Entgin. 

III.  Johan  Questenberg  (1  above  .  Children:  1.  Berf'/.d,  in  1532  m.  Mar- 
garetta  von  Kleppinak :    2.  Cunegundis,  in  1542  m.  Peter  von  Heinibach  : 

3.  Margaretha  :  4.  Anna.  m.  Alexander  von  du  Ehren. 

IV.  Berthold  von  Questenberg  'lab-ve^.  Children:  1.  Everhard.  matricu- 
lated 1544:    2.  Gtrfuirch  m.   Cathrina  von  Thirlaen :    3.  Johan.  died  15S7 : 

4.  Bartold,  m.  Anna  von  Kaunengeisen.  and  their  daughter  died  in  Cloister  in 
Syon :  5.  Caspar:  G,  Christina,  m.  Orro  vr-n  Eurde. 

V.  Gerard  von  Questenberg  ^2  above  .  Children;  1.  Gerard,  Baron  von 
Questenberg,  Imperial  Lord  of  the  Exchecquer  and  Vice  V*'ar  President,  died 
1646:  m.  Maria  von  Underholz  ;  2.  Hermau.  Baron  von  Questenberg.  Imperial 
Lord  of  the  Eschecrj_tier  and  Mii^ister  to  Eerdinand  III:  m.  first.  Polisena  von 
Otten.  no  children;  secondly.  Elizab-th  Constantina  von  Lyskirchen.  and  of 
their  four  children  Eerdinand  Constantine,  Robertus  and  Herman  "Wenceslaus 
died  unmarried,  and  Elizabeth  Constantina  m.  Gundacker.  Prince  of  Diedrich- 
stien.  Imperial  Confidential  Councillor  and  Chief  Chamberlain:  3.  Caspar, 
abbott  of  the  Cloister  Strahofi  at  Prague,  Imperial  Confidential  Councillor  at 
Prague.  A  very  learned  man.  vrhose  biography  has  been  printed  several  times 
in  Prague. 

VI.  BarL'U  Gerhard  von  Questenberg  1  above^.  Children:  1.  Jolin  Anton, 
Earl  and  Lord  von  Questenberg,  born  -Jan.  15.  1633  ;  Imperial  Lord  of  the 
Exchecc|uer.  died  Oct,  14.  16S6  ;  m.  ^^laria  Cathrina.  Baroness  von  Stadler. 
born  1641.  died  16S6:  2.  Eranz  ;  3.  Theresia.  abbess  in  Porto  Coll.  at  Vienna  : 
4.  Maria  Constantina.  m.  -Johan  Eranz,  Earl  of  Lamberg :  5.  Elizabeth  Cathe- 
rina,  m.  Jc'han  Jakolj.  Earl  of  Brandies. 

VII.  Johan  Anton,  Earl  and  Lord  von  Questenberg  '1  aboveb  Children  ; 
1.  Johan  Adam.  Earl  and  Lord  von  Qtiestenberg,  Baron  ^-^t  Peutschau.  Gf^t-bor::. 
Pirton.  Mies.  Baron  of  Jaromeritz.  Pauschitz.  Jakoban.  RapoLlen  and  SigharA?- 
kirchen  :  born  Eeb.  23.  1678:  Imperial  Court  CounciiL:>r.  Confidential  CL'\tncil- 
lor  and  Lord  of  the  Exchecquer,  died  in  1752  :  m.  first,  Maria  Antoni'?,  Countess 
Truches  von  V'allbtirg.  Star  and  Order  Lady,  who  ^lied  in  1736,  and  l-y  whom 
there  were  no  children  :  second,  in  173^.  Maria  Antonia.  Cotmtess  vun  Kauni^z- 
Eietburg.  Lady  of  the  Star  and  Order,  by  whom  he  had  two  childi'en — ^daughters 
— the  eldest.  Maria  Carolina,  born  Nov.  4:.  1742.  m.  Priesgolt.  Earl  of  Kufistein: 
and  the  youngest,  who  is  not  named,  married  and  had  two  sons. 

And  thus  terminated  this  line  of  the  family  of  Questenberg.  There  was  also 
a  line  in  Silesia. 

Eahne  also  gives  I.  345-'6  an  account  of  the  confirmation  of  the  arms  of 
Qtiestenberg  by  the  Cologne  Senate  :  which  confirmation  appears  to  have  been 
given  in  1678  on  the  application  of  that  branch  of  the  family  that  went  to 
Atistria.  and  it  repeats  almost  in  detail  the  genealogy  ^^iv-n  above.  Baron  Ger- 
hard von  Questenberg  (VI  went  to  Austria,  probably  ;<jon  after  1600.  and 
fotmded  the  Austrian  branch  of  the  family. 


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LETTERS. 

Cologne,  Sept.  16,  1899.— In  the  inclosure  I  send  you  :  (1)  A  list  of  the  MS. 
and  books  examined  for  you.  (2)  Eegistei-  pertaining  to  the  history  of  the 
Questenberg  family  from  1418  to  1515.  (3)  Copy  of  the  coat  of  arms  of  the 
Cologne  family  of  Questenberg,  from  the  official  Wappenbuch.  (4)  Copy  of  a 
very  incomplete  family  tree  from  Fahne's  Rhenish  Families. 

From  the  register  submitted  it  is  seen  that  members  of  the  family  have  lived 
in  Bortefelde  (near  Brunswick),  Danziz  and  Deventer,  and  with  the  Hanseatic 
business  in  London  and  Antwerp,  as  well  as  Cologne. 

Tillmann  Questenberg  became  a  citizen  of  Cologne  in  1427.  He  married 
Sybilla  von  Suchteln.  He  was  apparently  born  in  Bortefelde,  and  lived  in  his 
younger  years  in  London  as  a  merchant  of  the  Hanseatic  League.  He  died  in 
1445-6.  Bertold  Questenberg,  mentioned  in  London  in  1432,  seems  to  have 
been  the  brother  of  Tilmanu,  though  there  is  no  certain  proof.  It  seems  likely 
that  the  Cologne  Senator  Bertold  or  Bertram  (Bertrand)  Questenberg,  who  is 
mentioned  until  1481,  and  is  first  mentioned  in  1442  (as  a  cloth  merchant)  and 
married  Margareth  in  1445,  was  Tilmann's  son. 

Questenberg  is,  as  you  will  see  from  the  inclosures,  a  very  common  German 
town  name.  A  history  of  the  township  Questenberg,  in  the  Harz,  has  been 
written  by  Karl  Meyer.  In  Cologne  the  family  died  out  before  1797.  Do  you 
know  that  the  Austrian  Councillor  of  War,  von  Questenberg,  is  a  principal 
character  in  Schiller's  Picolominif 

Dr.  Hermann  Keussen, 
City  Archive  Keeper. 

Cologne,  Jan.  11,  1900. — The  word  Questen  is  undoubtedly  derived  from  the 
German  word  Quasi,  which  means  in  English,  crest,  plume,  tuft,  tassell,  etc. 
The  family  is  of  Saxon  origin,  most  likely,  because  the  Brunswick  town  of 
Questenberg  lies  within  the  territory  of  the  Saxon  race.  .  .  .  The  Questen- 
berg coat  of  arms  I  sent  you  is  contained  in  the  official  Wappenbuch  of  Cologne, 
and  is  therefore  authentic.  ...  In  the  Cologne  City  Museum  there  is  a 
portrait  of  an  old  lady  of  the  Questenberg  family,  painted  in  1552.  It  is  most 
likely  that  of  Cunegundis  von  Questenberg,  who  married  Peter  von  Heimbach, 
the  Burgomaster.  The  portrait  is  the  work  of  the  renowned  artist  Bartholo- 
maeus  Bruyn.    .    .  . 

Dr.  Heemann  Keussen. 
From  Bitter's  Geographical  and  Statistical  Dictionary  : 

1.  Questenberg. — A  village  in  Prussia,  district  Mercelburg,  township  Sauger- 
hausen,  380  E.,  surrounded  by  very  high,  steep  mountains.  Near  by  are  the 
ruins  of  Castle  Questenberg. 

2.  Questenberg. — A  village  in  Saxony  ;  district,  Dresden ;  Court-house,  Meis- 
sen.   204  E. 

Cologne,  Nov.  27,  1899.— The  current  directories  of  the  below-named  cities 
have  been  searched  for  the  name  Questenberg,  but  without  success,  to  wit : 
Aarhen,  Alton,  Augsburg,  Berlin,  Borhum,  Bonn,  Brunswick,  Bremen,  Bres- 


IX  GERMANY,  ENGLAND  AND  AMERICA. 


lau.  Brussells.  Belgien,  Coblenz.  Crefeld,  Cassell,  Chemnitz,  Charlottenburg, 
Danzig,  Darmstadt,  Dresden,  Dasseldorf,  Dortmund,  Essen,  Esheweiler,  Frank- 
fort-on-the-Main,  Gelsenkirchen,  Gladbach,  Hamburg,  Hanover,  Iserlohn, 
Konigsburg,  Konstanz,  Leipsic,  Madeburg,  Mainz,  Mulheim-on-tbe-Ehine, 
Munster  in  Westphalia,  Munich.  Neuss,  Oberhausen,  Osnabruck,  Paris,  Saar- 
brucken,  Rerklinghausen,  Solmgen,  Stettin,  Strasburg  in  Alsace,  Stuttgart, 
Tries,  Vienna,  and  Weisbaden.  In  the  directory  of  Hamburg  was  found  the 
name  of  the  widowRob:  Quastenbei'g,  I.  Oberalteuallee,  76.  .  .  .  The  wills 
of  the  Cologne  family  of  Questenberg  are  preserved  in  the  Royal  State  Archives 
at  Dusseldorf,  the  superintendent  of  which  you  should  address  if  you  wish 
copies  of  the  wills. 

Dr.  Heemann  KsrssEN. 

Vienna,  Al-stkia-Huxgaey.  July  3,  1899. — Replying  to  your  courteous  inquiry 
of  the  18th  ultimo  in  regard  to  the  address  of  any  one  of  the  Questenberg  family 
in  Austria,  I  beg  to  inform  you  that  the  family  was  originally  from  Cologne, 
Germany,  and  that  the  last  one  of  that  name,  Count  Johann  Adam  Questen- 
berg. died  in  the  year  1752  without  male  issue.  He  conferred  the  use  of  his 
coat  of  arms,  but  not  his  title,  by  will,  to  Domenicus  Andreas,  Count  of  Kaunitz- 
Rietburg,  and  this  act  was  ratified  by  the  Empress  Maria  Theresa,  of  Austria, 
in  1761. 

Alvesto  p.  Hogue, 
U.  S.  Consul-General. 


Io6         MEMORIALS  OK  THE  QUISENBERRY  FAMILY 


II. 

ENGLISH  DOCUMENTS. 

1442,  Aug.  5.  (Patent  Roll,  20  Henry  VI,  part  3,  membrane  23d.)  The  King 
to  Robert  Colege,  our  servant  at  arms :  The  merchants  of  the  Hanse 
residing  in  London  have  complained  to  Us  that  six  packs  of  cloths 
belonging  to  Robert  Blitherswyk  and  Bertrand  Questenberg,  merchants 
of  the  Hanse,  also  residing  in  London,  properly  customed  and  crocket- 
ted,  which  the  said  Robert  and  Bertrand  intended  to  convey  to  the 
town  of  Faversham  by  water,  thence  by  land  to  Dover,  and  thence  to 
Calais,  have  been  taken  away  by  certain  armed  malefactors,  being  in  a 
boat  belonging  to  the  Earl  of  Shrewsbury,  near  the  town  of  Quenes- 
burgh,  to  the  great  damage  of  the  said  Robert  and  Bertrand,  who  have 
begged  Us  to  help  them  to  recover  their  goods.  Now  We,  considering 
the  leagues  and  friendship  which  have  existed  between  Us  and  Our 
progenitors  and  those  of  Germany, a  nd  willing  to  treat  all  the  mer- 
chants of  Germany  in  Our  kingdom  of  England,  and  coming  here,  as 
Our  friends  and  well  wishers,  command  you  to  go  to  all  the  ports  and 
coasts  where  said  cloths  might  have  come,  and  there  to  enquire  in 
whose  hands  they  have  come,  and  to  arrest  those  in  whose  hands  they 
are  found,  until  the  said  Robert  and  Bertrand  have  proved  those  cloths 
to  be  theirs,  and  to  put  the  thieves  in  prison  until  We  shall  give  orders 
for  their  release.    Witness :  Ourself  at  Dogmersfeld,  5  August,  1442. 

(Mr.  J.  M.  Cowper,  of  Canterbury,  writes  (Sept.  1,  1899)  :  "  That  is  a  curious 
incident  about  Bertrand  Questenberg,  as  the  cloths  would  go  from  Faversham 
through  Canterbury  to  Dover.  The  '  Quenesburgh '  mentioned  is,  of  course, 
Queenborough. " ) 

1490-1504.  Mr.  J.  M.  Cowper  writes  (April  2,  1899)  :  "  I  find  in  the  old  MS.  city 
records  of  Canterbury  that  Augustine  Questyngbury,  tailour,  appears 
in  1490,  when  he  paid  xvj  d.  to  be  allowed  to  exercise  his  craft  in  the 
ward  of  Westgate,  Canterbury.  I  have  traced  him  under  the  forms  of 
Questyngborough,  Questynbury,  Questynborow,  Questyngbery,  etc., 
until  1504,  when  he  appears  as  Austyn  Questyngbury.  Generally  his 
name  appears  among  the  intrantes  to  the  ward,  when  he  paid  his 
annual  fee,  which  was  more  often  16  pence,  but  sometimes  12  pence. 
Sometimes  he  appears  as  owing  one  payment," 

1507.  (Canterbury  City  Records.)  John  Questenbury  became  an  apprentice 
to  William  Warlowe,  whose  trade  is  not  given  ;  nor  is  there  any  further 
mention  of  John  Q. 

1510.  Mr.  Cowper  writes  (May  14,  1899):  "The  Canterbury  City  Records 
show  that  Augustine  Questynbury  paid  his  yearly  dues  as  '  tailour ' 
from  1490  to  1510,  after  which  his  name  does  not  appear  again." 


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1522-1525.  (Canterbury  City  Records.)  Thomas  Questynbery,  Glasyer.  is 
entered  in  the  "  Accompteof  ye  Eecytes  receyved  of  diurse  intrantes," 
at  Canterbury,  paying  in  1523  and  1524  xij  d.,  and  in  1525  xvj  d.; 
after  which  there  is  no  further  mention  of  him. 

1538-1543.  (Canterbury  City  Records.)  Henry  Questynbery,  shoemaker,  paid 
iij  s.  iiij  d.  yearly  as  an  intrante  from  1538  to  1513,  in  which  year  he 
became  a  freeman  of  the  city  of  Canterbury. 

1543,  Sept.  13.  (City  Records  of  Canterbury.)  Henry  Questynbery,  shoe- 
maker, admitted  a  freeman  of  Canterbury  and  paid  13 /4. 

1551,  Aug.  2.  (Canterbury  City  Records.)  ''Itm:  rec.  of  peter  london  for 
thenrolment  of  Marks  (Marcus)  Questenborow,  his  apprentice,  ij  s.  j  d." 

1551-  2.  (Canterbury  City  Records.)  Walt'  Yentyman  enrolled  as  the  apprentice 
of  Henry  Questenbury. 

1563,  Oct.  17.    (Registers  of  Leeds  Parish,  Kent.)    Millicent  Quesseuberry, 

filias  Henrici,  baptized. 

1564,  April  2.    (Canterbury  City  Records.)    "  Item  :  ye  ij  of  Aprill  and  yere 

aforesaid  Marks'  Qwestenbery,  otf  Canterbury,  shoemaker,  was  admitted 
and  sworn  to  ye  lib'ties  of  this  cittie,  for  ye  whitche  he  p.  nt.  (paid 
not),  be  caws  he  was  ye  sou  of  Harry  Qwestynberry,  who  was  a 
ffreeman  before  je  birthe  of  ye  said  Mks."  r Marcus.)  [This  shows 
that  Marcus  Q.  was  born  before  1543,  the  year  his  father,  Henry  Q., 
was  admitted  a  freeman). 

1565,  Nov.  14.    (Registers  of  Leeds  Parish,  Kent.)    Johannes  Quessenberi. 

filius  Henrici,  baptized. 

1567-'8,  Jan.  2.  (Leeds  registers.)  Christoffer  Quessenberry,  filius  Henrici, 
baptized. 

1570,  Aug.  20.    (Leeds  Registers).    John  Quessonberry,  filius  Henrici,  baptized. 

1573,  April  26.  (Leeds  Registers).  George  Quessonberry,  filius  Henrici, 
baptized. 

1576,  June  25.    (Registers  of  All  Saints'  Church,  Canterbury).    Amye  Questen- 

bury, baptized.    (Parents'  names  not  given). 

1576-'7,  Feb.  19.  (Leeds  Registers).  Richard  Quessenberry,  filius  Henrici, 
baptized. 

1577,  Dec.  5.    (Leeds  Registers).    Milicent  Quessonberry,  buried. 

1578,  Nov.  15.     (Leeds   Registers).     Jacobus   (James)  Quessonberry,  filius 

Henrici,  baptized. 

1581,  Sept.  8.  (Leeds  Registers).  Johannes  Quessenberry,  filius  Henrici, 
baptized. 

1597,  May  26.  (Registers  of  All  Saints,  Canterbury).  Marck  Queshenbury 
was  buried. 

1603-'4,  March  19.  (Leeds  Registers).  Mildred  Quessonberry,  uxor  Henrici, 
sepultus  fuit. 


I08         MEMORIALS  OF  THE  QUISENBERRY  EAMII^Y 


1(;04,  May  6.  (Leeds  Eegisters).  Mildred  Quessenbery,  filia  Jacobi  (James) 
baptizatus  fuit. 

1605.  The  churchwarden's  books  of  Leeds  Parish,  Kent,  show  that  Hary 

Questenbery  (as  he  signed  his  name)  was  one  of  the  churchwardens  of 
the  parish- in  1605. 

1605-6,  Jan,  5.  (Leeds  Registers).  John  Quessenberry,  filius  Jacobi  (James) 
baptized. 

1606,  April  24.    (Canterbury  Marriage  Licences).    Edward  Bowles,  of  Dover, 

and  Ann  Quessenburrie,  of  Canterbury,  licensed  to  marry. 

1608,  March  16.  (Registers  of  Bromley  Parish,  Kent).  Thomas,  the  son  of 
James  Questenbury,  was  baptized. 

1614,  July  2.  (Close  Roll,  12  James  I,  part  3).  Indenture  made  the  2d  July, 
1614,  between  Peter  Ellis,  of  Southfleete,  in  the  county  of  Kent,  gent., 
on  the  one  part,  and  Henry  Questenburie,  son  of  John  Questenburie, 
late  of  the  City  of  Rochester,  in  the  said  county  of  Kent,  deceased,  on 
the  other  part,  Witnesseth  that  the  said  Peter  Ellis  for  and  in  consid- 
eration of  £20  paid  by  the  friends  of  the  said  Henry  Questenburie,  and 
in  consideration  of  divers  costs  and  charges  which  Jane  Johnson,  now 
wife  of  Robert  Johnson,  of  Southfleete,  gent.,  natural  mother  of  said 
Henry  Questenburie,  bestowed  upon  Alice  Ellis,  mother  of  Peter  Ellis, 
being  nearly  100  years  of  age  at  her  death,  cherishing  and  keeping  the 
said  Alice  in  the  house  of  the  said  Jane  unto  the  hour  of  her  death, 
and  for  divers  other  charges  also  bestowed  upon  the  said  Peter  for  his 
maintenance  and  keeping  with  the  said  Jane  in  all  things  necessary  for 
the  sustenance  of  his  life  many  years  past,  and  so  is  mynded  unto  the 
hour  of  his  death;  and  also  for  that  Alice,  the  now  wife  of  the  said 
Peter,  doth  live  apart  from  the  said  Peter  and  cannot  be  conformed 
in  any  due  manner  to  live  with  him — Hath  given  and  granted,  bargained 
and  sold  unto  the  said  Henry  Questenburie  his  heirs  and  assigns  for- 
ever all  that  messuage  or  tenement  called  Rowsden,  two  barns,  gar- 
dens, 20  acres  of  land,  10  acres  of  meadow,  10  acres  of  pasture,  2  acres 
of  woodland,  lying  and  being  now  or  late  in  12  severall  parcells,  con- 
taining by  estimation  forty  and  two  acres,  more  or  less,  with  all  and 
singular  their  appurtenances  whatsoever,  lying  and  being  in  Marden, 
in  the  county  of  Kent,  in  the  occupation  of  Edmond  Ellis,  of  Otham, 
Kent,  gent.  And  also  that  messuage  in  Maidstone,  in  Wick  street,  and 
all  other  messuages,  lands,  &c.,  of  Peter  Ellis,  situate  within  the 
county  of  Kent.    (Note. — Marden  is  near  Maidstone.) 

1620,  Aug.  20.  (Rochester  Wills — Abstract).  I,  James  Questenbury,  of  East 
Greenwich,  in  County  Kent,  yeoman.  .  .  .  My  body  to  be  buried 
at  the  discretion  of  my  executors.  ...  I  bequeath  all  my  lands, 
tenements,  rent  charges,  annuities  and  hereditaments  whatsoever  lying 
in  Leeds  in  County  Kent  to  John  Questenburye,  my  eldest  son,  and 
his  heirs,  he  paying  yeaily  out  of  the  same  to  my  son  Thomas  Questen- 
bury for  his  life  30  shillings.  If  the  said  annuity  be  not  paid  it  will  be 
lawful  for  the  said  Thomas  to  enter  into  the  said  "premises  and  to  dis- 


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109 


train,  and  to  take  away  the  distresses  until  the  said  money  be  paid. 
If  my  said  son  John  die  without  issue  of  his  body,  then  the  said  lands, 
etc.,  shall  lineally  descend  to  the  said  Thomas  Questenbury,  my 
youngest  son,  and  his  heirs  ;  and  for  default  I  give  the  same  to  Mil- 
dred Questenbury,  my  daughter,  and  her  heirs  forever.  I  also  give  the 
said  Mildred  one  brass  pot  and  one  brass  chaffer,  which  were  my  grand- 
mother's. The  residue  of  all  my  goods  I  give  to  Joan  Questenbury, 
my  wife,  whom  I  make  sole  executrix.  I  entreat  my  friend,  Henry 
Shorye,  of  East  Greenwich,  yeoman,  to  be  overseer  of  this,  my  will. 
.  .  .  Witnesses :  John  Androes,  Reginald  Gleydell.  (Proved  20 
October,  1620,  by  the  relict). 

1620,  Sept.  16.    (Registers  of  East  Greenwich  parish,  Kent).    James  Questen- 

burie  was  buried.  (Note.— The  parish  clerk  writes  that  this  is  the 
only  entry  of  the  name  Q.  on  the  East  Greenwich  parish  registers.) 

1624,  April  30.    (Registers  of  All  Saints,  Canterbury).    Anne  Questenbmye. 

widdowe,  buryed. 

1621,  May  19.    (Marriage  Licences,  Bishop  of  Loudon).    John  Griffin,  of  the 

City  of  Westminster,  gentleman,  widower,  60,  and  Joane  Questonbury, 
40,  widow  of  James  Questonbury.  licensed  to  be  married  at  St.  Peter's 
Paul's  Wharf,  London. 

1625,  Dec.  5.    (Marriage  Licences,  Bishop  of  London).    Maurice  Eady,  gen- 

tleman, of  St.  Dunstan's,  West,  bachelor,  22,  and  Anne  Questonbury, 
of  same,  spinster,  24,  licensed  to  be  married  at  St.  Faith's. 

1626,  (Feet  of  Fines,  Kent,  Trinity  Term,  2  Charles  I).    Final  agreement 

made  at  Westminster  on  the  Morrow  of  Holy  Trinity,  2  Charles  I, 
between  Henry  Questenbury  and  Henry  Austine,  pltfs.,  and  Andrew 
Evans  and  Margaret,  his  wife,  and  Walter  Harflete,  gent.,  and  others, 
defts  ,  concerning  the  Manor  of  Deane  Place  with  the  appurtenances 
and  10  acres  of  land,  120  acres  of  pasture  and  60  acres  of  wood,  in 
Meopham  and  Luddesdown,  whereupon  a  plea  of  covenant  was  sum- 
moned in  the  said  Court,  and  the  said  Andrew  and  Margaret,  Waiter 
and  the  others  acknowledged  the  said  premises  to  be  the  right  of  the 
said  Henry  Questenbury  as  those  which  he  and  Henry  Austine  had  of 
their  gift,  and  the  same  remised  to  the  said  Henry  Questenbury  and 
Henry  Austine,  and  to  the  heirs  of  the  said  Henry  Questenbury  for- 
ever. And  for  this  acknowledgement  and  fine  the  said  Henry  Ques- 
tenbury and  Henry  Austine  gave  to  the  said  Andrew  and  Margaret, 
Walter  and  others,  £320  sterling. 

1627,  May.    (Records  in  Maidstone  Library).    H.  Questenbery,  of  Hoo  (near 

Rochester),  was  witness  to  a  covenant  between  Sir  Richard  Leveson, 
of  Litshull,  Salop,  K.  B.,  on  the  one  part,  and  John  Codd,  gentleman, 
Mayor  of  Rochester,  on  the  other. 

1628,  May  6.    (Close  Roll,  4  Charles  I,  part  3).    Indenture  made  between 

Peter  Maplesden,  of  Lydde,  County  Kent,  gent.,  and  Robert  Maples- 
den,  of  Lydde,  gent.,  brother  to  Peter  Maplesden,  of  the  first  part: 


no         MEMORIAI.S  OF  THE  QUISENBERRY  FAMII.Y 


Henry  Gierke,  of  the  Middle  Temple,  London,  Esquire,  and  John 
Cobham  the  younger,  of  Kochester,  Kent,  of  the  second  part ;  and 
Thomas  Hamond,  of  Eochester,  and  Henry  Questenbury,  of  Rochester, 
gent.,  of  the  third  part^ — concerning  a  messuage  in  the  parishes  of  St. 
Nicholas,-  Rochester,  and  St.  Margaret,  Rochester.  [Note. — No 
further  information  in  this  instrument  about  Henry  Questenbury.] 

1628.  (Feet  of  Fines,  Kent.  Trinity  Term,  4  Charles  I).  Final  agreement 
made  at  Westminster  in  the  Octaves  of  Holy  Trinity,  4  Charles  I, 
between  Thomas  Thatcher,  pit.,  and  John  Questenbury,  Thomas 
Questenbury,  William  Welch  and  Mildred,  his  wife,  def ts. ,  ,concern- 
ing  2  messuages,  3  gardens  and  3  acres  of  land,  with  the  appurte- 
nances, in  Leeds,  Kent.  Whereupon  a  covenant  was  summoned  in  the 
said  Court,  and  the  said  John  and  Thomas  Questenbury  and  William 
and  Mildred  acknowledged  the  said  premises  to  be  the  right  of  the 
said  Thomas  Thatcher,  and  the  same  remised  to  him  and  his  heirs  for- 
ever. For  this  acknowledgement  and  fine  the  said  Thomas  Thatcher 
gave  to  the  said  John  and  Thomas  Questenbury,  William  and  Mildred, 
£60  sterling. 

1638,  Dec.  6.  (Canterbury  Marriage  Licences).  Henry  Questenbury,  of  Maid- 
stone, Kent,  gentleman,  surety  on  the  marriage  bond  of  Josiah  Janes, 
and  Ann  Gilbert. 

1640,  Oct.  20.    (Chancery  Bills  and  Answers,  Charles  I.    Bundle  Q  1,  No.  59). 

Henry  Questenbury,  of  Maidstone,  in  County  Kent,  gentleman,  com- 
plains that  he  became  indebted  to  Ellis  Ellis,  of  Otham,  in  said  county, 
gentleman,  in  several  sums  of  money,  and  entered  into  several  bonds 
for  the  payment  thereof,  and  that  about  August,  1634,  pit.  and  the 
said  Ellis  came  to  an  accounting  touching  the  said  money,  which 
amounted  to  about  £20,  and  pltf's  mother  being  entitled  to  several 
messuages  in  the  City  of  Rochester,  in  County  Kent,  which  were  then 
unjustly  kept  from  her,  and  she  intending  to  take  "  course  at  lawe" 
for  the  recovery  thereof,  but  being  destitute  of  money  to  pay  the  costs 
thereof,  and  of  friends  to  help  her,  interested  the  said  Ellis  to  help  her 
therein,  who  agreed  to  accept  a  lease  from  her  of  the  said  messuages, 
so  that  he  might  in  his  own  name  bring  an  "  ejecion  firme  "  for  the 
recovery  thereof,  provided  that  pit.  became  bound  to  him  in  the  sum 
of  £30  for  his  expenses  therein.  When  this  was  done  the  said  Ellis 
released  to  pit.  all  the  other  bills,  bonds,  notes  and  reckonings  which 
had  been  between  them.  When  pit.  had  paid  the  said  sum  of  £30  by 
installments  he  asked  the  said  Ellis  to  give  him  an  acquittance,  and  he 
said  that  when  £5  more  had  been  paid  he  would  give  up  all  the  bonds 
to  be  cancelled.  Then  the  said  Ellis  died  and  his  will  was  proved  by 
his  son,  Henry  Ellis,  gent.,  to  whom  pit.  offered  the  said  £5  still  owing, 
but  he  refused  to  believe  that  that  was  the  only  amount  owing,  declined 
to  give  up  the  bond  to  be  cancelled,  and  brought  an  action  in  Trinity 
term  last  against  pit.,  etc.,  etc. 

1641,  Oct.  6.    (Feet  of  Fines,  Kent,  16  Charles  I,  Michaelmas).    Final  agree- 

ment made  in  the  Octaves  of  St.  Michael,  in  the  16th  year  of  Charles, 


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between  Henry  Questenbury,  gentleman,  pit.,  and  Peter  Ellis,  defor. 
ciant,  of  two  messuages  and  two  gardens  with  the  appurtenances,  in 
Maidstone,  concerning  which  a  plea  of  warranty  was  made  between 
them,  that  the  said  Peter  granted  to  the  said  Henry  the  aforesaid 
tenements  for  forty  years  after  the  death  of  Jane  Ellis,  wife  of  the  said 
Peter,  the  said  Henry  paying  yearly  the  sum  of  8  shillings ;  and  for 
this  acknowledgement  the  said  Henry  gives  the  said  Peter  £80  sterling. 

1641,  Oct.  28.    (Chancery  Bills  and  Answers,  Charles  I.    Bundle  Q  1,  No.  72). 

Henry  Questenbury,  of  Maidstone,  in  County  Kent,  gentleman,  com- 
plains that  about  eleven  years  ago  one  Eobert  Johnson  borrowed  of 
Eobert  Matthews,  then  of  Aylsford,  in  County  Kent,  gentleman,  £10 ; 
and  asked  pit.  to  become  bound  with  him  in  a  bond  for  £20  for 
Matthews'  security  for  the  same.  But  when  the  said  £10  should  have 
been  paid  to  the  said  Matthews  he  suffered  the  said  Johnson  to  keep 
it  until  he  died,  about  9  years  ago.  His  estate  was  so  small  that  the 
said  £10  could  not  be  paid  out  of  it.  Pit.  had  paid  £7  of  the  said  £10 
when  the  said  Matthews  died,  about  three  years  ago,  and  was  going 
to  pay  the  rest  in  installments,  as  was  agreed ;  but  now  Margaret,  the 
widow  and  executrix  of  the  said  Matthews,  confederating  with  Nicholas 
Snott,  alias  Snatt,  who  married  her  daughter,  has  commenced  a  suit 
against  pit,  upon  the  said  bond  of  £20,  etc.,  etc. 

1643,  Feb.  2.  (Close  Eoll,  19  Charles  I,  part  8,  No.  6).  Indenture  made  the 
2d  day  of  February,  in  the  19th  year  of  Charles,  between  Nicholas 
Wade,  of  Feversham,  in  County  Kent,  gent.,  and  Henry  Questenbury^ 
of  Maydston,  in  County  Kent,  gent. — Witnesseth :  Whereas  William 
Clarke,  late  of  Leacham,  County  Kent,  by  deed  dated  10th  day  of  May, 
the  11th  year  of  Elizabeth  (1569)  granted  to  John  Wade,  late  of  Hol- 
lingbourne,  County  Kent,  one  annuity  or  yearly  rent  charge  of  13 
shillings  and  4-pence,  derived  from  lauds,  etc.,  in  Leacham,  devised  to 
William  Clarke  by  Thomas  Clarke,  and  now  the  property  of  Nicholas 
Wade — the  said  Nicholas  Wade,  in  consideration  of  the  sum  of  £10 
assigns  to  Henry  Questenbury,  his  heirs  and  assigns  forever,  the  said 
annuity  or  yearly  rent  charge. 


1644-5,  Feb.  19.— (Prerogative  Court  of  Canterbury  (56  Rivers)).  In  the 
name  of  God  Amen  I  Henry  Questenbury  of  Maidston  in  the  county  of  Kent 
Gentleman  beinge  at  this  presente  sicke  in  Body  but  of  a  disposeinge  memorie 
(praysed  be  God)  and  not  knoweinge  how  soone  it  may  please  Allmighty  God  to 
take  me  out  of  this  mortall  life  doe  therefore  for  the  quietinge  of  my  minde  and 
settlinge  of  the  estate  reall  and  personall  wherewith  it  hath  pleased  the  Lord  to 
Blesse  mee  make  and  declare  my  last  will  and  testament  in  maner  and  forme 
followeinge  that  is  to  say 

Ffirst  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  Daughters  Sara  Questenbury  and  Mary 
Questenbury  the  summe  of  ffifty  powndes  a  peece  to  be  paid  unto  each  of  them 
respectively  as  they  shall  respectively  atteine  the  age  of  eighteeue  yeares  or 
upon  the  day  of  their  respective  marriages  which  shall  first  happen. 


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Item  whereas  ray  beloved  wife  Sara  Questenbury  is  now  with  child  I  doe  give 
and  devise  to  the  said  child  if  it  shal  be  a  male  child  all  that  Messuage  and 
Laudes  with  the  Appurtenances  scituate  and  beinge  In  the  Parish  of  St.  Nicholas 
Atwoode  in  the  Isle  of  Thanett  in  the  said  county  of  Kent  which  I  late  pur- 
chased of  Thomas  Paramore  gent  To  have  and  to  hould  to  the  said  child  (If  it 
shal  be  a  male  child  as  aforesaid)  and  to  his  heires  forever. 

Item  I  give  and  bequeath  uuto  the  said  child  (if  it  shal  be  a  male  child  as 
aforesaid ;  all  that  my  Lease  estate  and  tearrae  of  yeares  of  and  in  all  those 
Messuages  with  the  Appurtenances  scituate  and  beinge  in  the  parish  of  Maid- 
stone aforesaid  heretofore  made  and  graunted  unto  me  by  Peter  Ellis 

Item  my  minde  will  and  meaninge  is  that  if  the  child  wherewith  my  said 
wife  is  now  Enseint  shal  be  a  female  child  That  then  such  child  soe  beinge  a 
female  child  shal  have  the  sumrae  of  fifty  powndes  which  I  here  give  and  be- 
queath to  the  said  child  to  be  paid  unto  her  at  the  age  of  eighteene  yeares  or 
upon  the  day  of  her  marriage  which  shall  first  happen.  And  then  and  in  such 
case  my  minde  will  and  meaninge  is  and  I  doe  hereby  give  full  power  and  Au- 
thority unto  my  Executors  hereafter  named  or  unto  such  of  them  as  shall  take 
upon  them  the  execution  of  this  my  will  to  make  sale  of  my  said  Messuage  and 
Landes  with  the  Appurtenances  in  the  parish  of  St.  Nicholas  At  wood  aforesaid, 
and  of  the  said  Lease  before  mencioned  to  the  best  value  they  can  gett  for  the 
same,  and  the  mony  to  be  raysed  by  Sale  thereof  to  be  equally  divided  between 
my  said  three  daughters  to  whom  I  give  the  same  over  and  besides  the  said 
Severall  and  respective  summes  of  ffifty  powndes  before  expressed  to  be  paid 
unto  them  respectively  as  the  said  ffifty  powndes  a  peice  shal  be  come  due 
[and]  payable  unto  them  respectively  as  aforesaid 

Item  I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  said  wife  Sara  Questenbury  the  Lease  estate 
and  residue  of  Tearme  of  yeares  yet  to  come  of  and  in  a  certain  Messuage  with 
the  Appurtenances  lyeing  at  Tovell  in  the  parish  of  Maidstone  aforesaid  which 
came  to  me  by  marriage  with  my  said  wife 

Item  I  will  yt  All  my  plate  beddinge  Lyninge  Bookes  and  other  goods  and 
personall  estate  whatsoever  not  allready  before  bequeathed  (except  my  ware- 
inge  Apparell  lyninge  and  wooleinge)  shal  be  sould  by  my  Executors  hereafter 
named  or  such  of  them  as  shall  take  upon  himself  the  Execucion  of  this  my 
will  and  the  money  to  be  raised  by  Sale  thereof  and  to  be  received  of  such 
Debts  and  Moneys  as  shal  be  oweinge  to  mee  at  my  Death  my  will  and  mean- 
inge is  That  after  the  said  severall  Summes  of  ffifty  powndes  before  mentioned 
to  be  given  to  my  said  Children  respectively  shal  be  fully  raysed  and  my  Debts 
Legacies  and  ffunerall  expences  satisfyed  and  payd  shal  be  paid  to  my  said  wife 
Sara  the  better  to  enable  her  to  bringe  up  my  said  children  which  I  earnestly 
entreate  her  to  be  carefull  in  and  for  her  firther  encouragement  therein  my  will 
and  desire  is  that  my  said  Executors  shall  employ  the  said  severall  porcions  be- 
fore given  to  my  said  children  respectively  to  what  profitt  they  safely  can  and 
the  profitt  to  be  made  thereby  to  pay  to  my  said  wife  towards  the  education  of 
my  said  Children  And  if  my  said  wife  shall  be  delivered  of  a  Male  Child  my 
will  is  that  my  said  wife  shall  have  and  take  the  Rentes  and  profittes  of  my  said 
Messuage  and  Landes  in  St.  Nicholas  Atwood  aforesaid  and  of  the  said  Messuage 
with  the  Appurtenances  demised  by  the  said  Lease  made  by  the  said  Peter 
EUys  as  aforesaid  towards  the  education  of  the  said  child  untill  he  shall  atteine 
the  Age  of  Eighteene  yeares  if  he  shall  so  long  live. 


IN  GERMANY,  ENGLAND  AND  AMERICA. 


Item  I  doe  hereby  declare  my  expresse  will  and  meaninge  to  be  That  if  any 
of  my  Daughters  shall  depart  this  life  before  the  Severall  and  respective 
Legacies  of  flfifty  pownds  shal  be  come  [due]  and  payable  unto  her  or  them 
that  shall  soe  dye  accordinge  to  my  minde  and  meaninge  before  expressed  that 
then  the  porcion  or  porcions  of  her  or  them  soe  dyeinge  shal  be  paid  unto  the 
survivors  or  survivor  of  them  at  such  tyme  or  tymes  as  the  child  or  children 
soe  dyeing  should  receive  the  same  if  shee  or  they  had  lived 

Item  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  Loveinge  Mother  Jane  Johnsonne  all  my 
wareing  apparell  Lyninge  and  Wooleinge  and  y*^  some  of  ffive  powndes  of  lawe- 
fuU  money  of  England 

And  of  this  my  last  will  and  Testament  I  doe  constitute  and  ordeine  my 
Loveinge  Cosine  M'"  Thomas  Turner  and  my  Loveinge  Brother  in  lawe  Maurice 
Eady  to  be  the  executors,  to  whom  I  give  fforty  shillinges  a  peece  to  buy  each 
of  them  a  ringe  as  a  Testimony  of  my  respect  to  them  for  their  paines  to  be 
taken  herein  (which  I  know  cannott  but  be  greate)  Desireing  them  to  see  this 
my  will  performed  accordinge  to  my  true  minde  and  meaninge  before 
expressed 

In  witness  whereof  I  the  said  Henry  Questenbury  have  to  this  my  present 
last  will  and  Testament  conteineiug  two  sheetes  of  paper  to  each  sheete  thereof 
sett  my  hand  and  seale  this  nineteenth  day  of  ffebruary  in  the  twentieth  yeare 
of  the  Keigne  of  our  Soveraigne  Lord  King  Charles  &c  1644, 

li,  s.  Henky  Questenbury. 

Sealed  subscribed  published  and  declared  by  the  above-named  Henry 
Questenbury  in  the  presence  of  Ri :  Heade.  Hen  :  Wriothesley.  Proved  March 
14,  1644  [5]  by  Maurice  Eady,  Executor. 

1654,  May  3.  (Registers  of  St.  Dunstan's,  Canterbury).  Questenbery,  son  of 
Thomas  Simpson,  was  baptized.  (A  foot  note  says  :  "  The  surname 
of  Questynbury  appears  in  the  city  records  of  Canterbury  in  the  15th 
century.") 

1662-'3,  Jan.  22.  (Marriage  Licences,  Dean  of  Westminster,  etc.)  Nicholas 
Stonehouse,  of  Chatham,  County  Kent,  gentleman,  about  21,  and  Mary 
Questonbury,  of  Rochester,  said  county,  spinster,  about  20 ;  consent 
of  her  mother,  Sara  Questonbury,  widow — at  St.  Margaret  Pattens  ; 
All  Hallows,  Barking;  or  St.  Dunstan's,  East. 

1663,  June  29.  (Chancery  Bills  and  Answers.  Collins,  before  1714.  Bundle 
170,  No.  100.)  (Questenbury  ^9,.  Catlett:  Thomas  Questenbury,  of  the 
city  of  Canterbury,  cordwainer,  son  of  James  Questenbury,  late  of 
East  Greenwich,  County  Kent,  deceased,  complains  that  whereas  the 
said  James  Questenbury  was  in  his  lifetime  seized  in  his  desmesne  as 
of  fee  simple  to  him  and  his  heirs  of  divers  lands,  hereditaments  and 
tenements  in  Leeds,  in  County  Kent,  and  being  so  seized  on  or  about 
the  12th  day  of  August,  1620,  made  his  will  and  thereby  bequeathed 
all  his  lands,  tenements,  rents  and  hereditaments  whatsover  in  Leeds 
to  John  Questenbury,  his  eldest  son,  and  his  heirs,  he  paying  thereout 
yearly  to  pit.  his  (testator's)  son,  Thomas  Questenbury,  30  shillings 


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per  annum.  The  said  James  Questenbury  died  soon  after  making  the 
said  will;  to- wit,  on  or  about  the  1st  day  of  October  following, 
leaving  pit.  an  infant  under  age,  to-wit,  of  the  age  of  12  years.  After- 
wards, pit.  having  nobody  to  take  care  of  him,  could  not  obtain  the 
payment  of  the  said  30s  a  year,  though  he  often  asked  for  it,  but  was 
forced  to  seek  his  fortune  and  to  go  beyond  the  seas,  where  he  con- 
tinued for  many  years,  that  is  to  say  until  about  1650,  since  which 
time  he  has  often  demanded  the  payment  of  the  said  rent  charges 
from  the  tenants  of  the  lands  of  said  James  Questenbury,  and  has 
taken  distresses  for  the  same  ;  but  so  it  is  that  the  cattle  so  distrained, 
by  the  contrivance  and  fraud  of  Thomas  Catlett,  gentleman,  and 
Elizabeth  his  wife,  and  of  other  persons,  being  tenants  of  the  said 
lands,  were  taken  out  of  the  pounds  where  they  were  impounded. 
And  the  said  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  have  also  caused  the  said  original 
will  to  be  embezzled,  or  have  concealed  the  same  from  the  pit.  and 
give  out  in  speeches  that  pit.  has  no  right  to  the  said  rent  charge,  or 
that  he  has  been  paid  all  the  arrears  thereof,  or  that  he  has  extinguished 
his  right  to  the  said  rent  charge  and  barred  himself  by  a  fine  levied  of 
the  said  lands,  although  they  know  to  the  contrary.  As  pit.  is  a  very 
poor  man  this  refusal  to  pay  him  the  said  money  is  very  prejudicial  to 
him.  He  therefore  prays  that  a  writ  of  subposna  may  be  directed  to 
the  said  Thomas  Cattlet  and  Elizabeth  his  wife  commanding  them  to 
produce  the  said  original  will  of  the  said  James  Questenbury. 

1663,  Oct.  6.  The  answers  of  Thomas  Catlett,  gent,  and  Eliz.  his  wife, 
to  the  bill  of  Thomas  Questenbury,  pit.  :  Defendants  absolutely 
deny  that  they,  either  by  taking  advantage  of  plaintiff's  minority,  or 
of  his  being  beyond  the  seas,  have  by  combination  with  others 
endeavored  to  defraud  pit.,  or  that  they  have  concealed  the  said 
original  will  and  kept  it  from  pit.,  but  they  confess  that  they  have 
given  out  in  speeches  that  pit.  has  no  right  or  title  to  any  such  rent 
charge,  as  they  were  informed  and  advised  by  their  counsel ;  for  they 
have  heard  and  hope  to  prove  that  the  aforesaid  John  Questenbury, 
together  with  pit.,  about  4  Charles  I.  (1628)  levied  and  acknowledged 
a  fine  of  the  said  premises  to  Thomas  Thatcher,  late  of  HoUingborne, 
in  County  Kent,  gent.,  deceased,  father  of  the  said  deft.,  Elizabeth, 
and  to  his  heirs,  who  by  virtue  thereof  enjoyed  the  said  premises  for 
many  years.  About  the  year  1646  the  said  Thomas  Thatcher,  in  con- 
sideration of  a  marriage  between  the  said  Elizabeth  and  John  Fletcher, 
her  former  husband,  settled  the  said  premises  on  the  said  John 
Fletcher  for  his  life,  with  remainder  to  said  Elizabeth  and  her  heirs. 
The  said  John  Fletcher  died  not  long  ago  leaving  issue  by  the  said 
Elizabeth,  Thomas  Fletcher,  an  infant  of  tender  years,  who  is  yet 
alive.  Immediately  after  the  death  of  the  said  John  the  said  Elizabeth 
entered  into  the  said  premises  and  became  thereof  seized  in  her 
demesne  as  of  fee  tail  general,  and  took  the  profits  there.  Not  long 
afterwards  she  married  the  said  Thomas  Catlett,  and  they  have 
together  enjoyed  the  said  premises  until  lately,  when  pit,  has  cause- 
lessly and  vexatiously  molested  them  ;  and  taking  advantage  of  the 


IX  GERMANY,  ENGLAND  AND  AMERICA. 


mislaying  of  the  said  original  deed  of  uses,  has  now  set  on  foot  the 
said  pretended  rent  charge  which,  as  defts.,  we  are  informed  is  utterly 
extinguished  and  destroyed  by  the  said  fine. 

IGG-i,  Oct.  18.    (Chancery  Depositions,  Collins  before  1714,  Bundle  156,  No.  5.) 

Depositions  taken  at  the  house  of  John  Berry,  being  the  sign  of  the 
Two  Bells,  in  the  parish  of  St.  George  in  the  city  of  Canterbury,  on 
Tuesday,  the  18th  day  of  October,  16  Charles  II,  before  Edward  Eloye 
and  others,  by  virtue  of  a  commission  out  of  the  Court  of  Chancery 
directed  to  them,  in  a  cause  there  depending  between  Thomas  Questen- 
bury,  pit.,  and  Thomas  Catlett  and  Elizabeth,  his  wife,  defts. 

Francis  Collins,  of  Canterbury,  gent.,  aged  30  years  and  upwards, 
says  that  the  writing  now  shown  to  him  consisting  of  eleven  sheets  of 
paper,  is  a  true  copy  of  the  will  remaining  in  the  Registrar's  ofiBce  for 
the  Diocese  of  Rochester,  he  having  examined  it  with  the  original  will, 
and  found  that  they  agree. 

John  Sweetinge.  of  Canterbury,  gent.,  aged  about  50,  says  that  he 
has  known  pit.  for  12  years  and  more,  and  believes  that  he  is  aged 
about  52  years,  and  that  he  was  born  in  the  parish  of  Bromley,  in 
Kent :  and  that  the  paper  now  shown  him  is  a  true  copy  he  has  taken 
out  of  the  Churchbooke  of  Bromley  containing  the  baptism  of  pit., 
for  he  examined  the  same  with  the  said  book,  and  found  that  they 
agreed.  Witness  has  seen  a  messuage  and  about  two  acres  of  land 
which  were  reputed  to  be  James  Questenbu  ry's  (pit's  father),  lying  in 
the  parish  of  Leeds.  This  he  knows  because  about  two  years  ago  he 
took  a  cow  upon  said  land  as  distress  for  pit.,  but  witness  cannot  tell 
the  value  of  said  premises. 

William  Oxburgh,  of  Canterbury,  brazier,  aged  about  79,  says  he 
has  known  pit.  for  about  16  years.  About  4  years  ago  pit.  asked 
witness  to  go  with  him  to  Leeds,  in  county  Kent,  and  they  being  there 
with  one  Reginald  Carter,  the  said  Reginald  told  them  that  he  had 
used  a  house  and  about  2  acres  of  land  in  Leeds  about  2  years  before 
the  death  of  James  Questenbury,  pit's  father,  and  that  he  might  have 
had  the  same  of  John  Questenbury,  pit's  brother,  for  £24,  but  he 
refused  because  he  thought  the  title  was  not  good.  Mr.  Thatcher 
gave  the  said  John  Questenbury  4:26  for  the  same. 

(Chancery  Bills  and  Orders,  1666,  B  Folio  103.)  Thomas  Questen^ 
bui'gh  vs.  Thos.  and  Elizabeth  Catlett,  Wednesday,  14th  Nov.,  1666. 
(Michaelmas  Term,  18  Charles  II.)  Upon  the  hearing  and  debating 
of  the  matter  in  question  between  the  said  parties  this  present  day, 
for  and  touching  a  rent  charge  for  which  the  pit.  by  ;his  bill  "seeks 
relief,  this  court  saw  no  cause  to  relieve  the  pit.  in  this  court,  but 
doth  order  that  the  pit's  bill  be  clearly  dismissed  out  of  this  court, 
without  costs. 

1665,  June  5.     (Registers  of  St.  Mary's  Northgate,  Canterbury).  Joane 

Questenbury,  buried. 

1666,  June,  19.     (Marriage  Licences,  Dean  of  Westminster,  etc.).  Praise 

Quessenbourow,  of  St.  Sepulchre's,  London,  grocer  and  bachelor,  21 


Il6         MEMORIALS  OF  THE  QUISENBERRY  FAMILY 


and  upwards,  and  Mary  Natt,  of  the  same,  spinster,  21,  with  consent 
of  her  mother,  Hester  Natt,  widow — granted  license  to  be  married  at 
Islington,  Middlesex,  or  Christ  Church,  London. 

1666,  Oct.  1.  (Canterbury  Marriage  Licences).  Thomas  Questunbury,  cord- 
wainer,  of-  St.  Mary  Northgate,  Canterbury,  surety  on  the  marriage 
bond  of  John  Mercer  and  Brickenden. 

1672,  March  25.    (Close  Eoll,  25  Charles  II,  Part  24,  No.  7).    Sarah  Questen- 

bury,  of  the  city  of  Canterbury,  spinster,  acknowledges  to  owe  to 
Hartobello  Grunston,  Master  of  the  Rolls,  the  sum  of  £40,  and  in 
default  of  payment  charges  her  heirs  and  assigns  to  make  the  pay. 
ment  out  of  her  property. 

1073,  Feb.  1.    (London  Marriage  Licences).    Samuel  Quissinburrowe,  of  St. 

Giles,  Cripplegate,  London,  bachelor,  23,  and  Mary  Warner,  of  St. 
Michael  Bassishawe,  London,  21.  Her  parents  dead.  Alleged  by 
Thomas  Quissinborow,  of  St.  Giles  aforesaid,  clerk,  granted  licence  to 
marry  at  St.  Giles  aforesaid. 

1673,  Sept.  4.    (Registers  of  St.  Giles,  Cripplegate,  London).    Samuel  Quinsen- 

burrow  and  Mary  Warner  were  married. 

1675,  March  23.  (Canterbury  Marriage  Licences).  William  Chandler,  aged  26 
bachelor,  of  St.  Alphege,  Canterbury,  smith,  and  Mildred  Quessenbury 
aged  20,  of  Deal,  spinster  (whose  father  consents) — licenced  to  be  mar- 
ried at  Sturry.    Henry  Hales,  gentleman,  bondsman. 

1678,  Aug.  25.  (Registers  of  St.  Mary  Northgate,  Canterbury).  Alice  Quessen 
bury,  buried. 

1681,  Aug.  3.  (Record  of  the  Grocers'  Company,  London).  Praise  Quessen- 
borow,  Sonne  of  Samuel  Quessenborow,  admitted  by  Patrimony,  and 
sworn.    3s.  4:d. 

1689,  Oct.  8.  (Registers  of  St.  Mary  Northgate,  Canterbury).  Thomas  Gibbius 
and  Elizabeth  Quessenbury,  married. 


LETTERS. 

Prof.  W.  W.  Skeat,  of  Cambridge  University,  England,  writes  (July  3,  1899): 
"In  reply  to  your  question  I  can  only  say  that  I  have  no  means  of  arriving  at 
certainty.  But  I  am  strongly  of  opinion  that  the  derivation  of  Quisenberry 
from  Questenbury,  and  of  both  these  from  Questenberg,  is  extremely  probable. 
And,  on  the  other  hand,  it  is  not  likely  that  Kyssingbury  is  the  same  name.  It 
is  much  more  probable  that  this  latter  is  of  native  origin,  and  that  the  prefix 
Kyssing  is  identical  with  Kessing  —as  it  occurs  in  Kessingland,  the  name  of  a 
village  in  the  county  of  Suffolk,  England." 

Mr.  J.  M.  Cowper,  of  Canterbury,  writes  (Sept.  1,  1899):  "I  am  glad  you 
have  Prof.  Skeats'  opinion.  His  authority  in  such  matters  is  practically 
supreme  in  England,  and  you  can  not  do  better  than  accept  what  he  says." 


IN  GERMANY,  ENGLAND  AND  AMERICA. 


Eev.  A.  P.  Morris,  Yicar  of  Leeds,  Kent,  writes  (Jan.  12,  1899):  '-The  gentle, 
man  at  the  British.  Museum  who  is  transcribing  the  old  Register  of  this  parish, 
has,  at  my  request,  picked  out  all  the  Quisenberry  entries,  and  I  send  you  his 
list.    I  have  no  doubt  his  remarks  are  correct." 

Mr.  J.  H.  Jeayes,  of  the  British  Museum,  writes  to  Mr.  Morris  (Jan.  4,  1899): 
"  I  have  taken  out  the  entries  relating  to  the  Quessenberry  family.  You  will 
see  that  there  was  only  one  family,  viz:  Henry  and  Mildred,  who  had  eight 
children.  Of  these,  one,  Mildred,  died:  and  another,  '  Jacobus,'  (James)  mar- 
ried, though  not  at  Leeds,  and  had  two  children  born  at  Leeds — Mildred  and 
John.  I  am  surprised  at  there  being  no  entry  of  birth,  marriage  or  death  in 
this  name  after  1G06.    List  herewith."    (Note. — See  ante.) 

Mr.  J.  M.  Cowper  writes  TMay  24,  1899):  "About  the  several  John  Q's  on  the 
Leeds  Registers.  This  has  often  puzzled  people.  I  have  referred  to  the  matter 
in  one  of  my  books,  and  have  clearly  shown  that  occasionally  a  father  would 
wish  to  perpetuate  some  favourite  Christian  name,  as  life  was  uncertain.  So 
Henry  Q.,  like  others,  christened  two  or  three  Johns,  hoping  thus  to  save  at 
least  one.  If  they  all  lived  they  were  known  as  John  the  1st,  John  the  2d,  etc. 
The  matter  has  been  referred  to  in  Notes,  and  Queries.-'' 

Mr.  Cowper  also  wrote  (April  23,  1S99):  "I  have  copied  for  ycu  the  entries 
of  the  Leeds  Registers  from  the  Bishop's  transcript,  preserved  in  Canterbury, 
viz  : 

"  Oct.  17,  1563,  Milisant  Yestonbery,  d.  of  Henry  Yestonbery,  baptized. 
(This  is  a  curious  variant  of  Questenbury — but  there  it  is.) 

Jan.  18,  1568,  Christopherus  Questenbery,  filius  Hennci  Questenberye,  bap- 
tized. 

April  26,  1573,  was  christened  George  Questenbury. 

(Day  lost)  1578,  James  Questenberry,  baptized. 

Sept.  3  (or  7),  1581,  John  Quessenberry,  baptized. 

May  6,  1601,  Mildred  Quessonberry,  filia  Jacobi,  baptized. 

March  19,  1603,  Mildred  Quessonberry,  uxor  Henrici,  buried. 

Jan.  5,  1605,  John  Quessonberry,  filia  Jacobi,  baptized. 

These  are  all  the  Q.  entries  I  have  found  in  the  Leeds  transcripts  up  to  1610, 
and  they  do  not  tally  with  those  on  the  original  Registers.  In  addition  I  have 
found  Hary  Questenbery's  signature  as  Churchwarden  at  Leeds  in  1605.  As 
this  will  interest  you  I  send  a  tracing  of  it.  .  .  .  The  scarcity  of  Q.  wills 
is  remarkable.  Clearly  the  Q's  were  men  of  some  importance.  Henry  Q's  will 
was  witnessed  by  Richard  Head,  who  was  afterwards  made  a  Baronet ;  and  the 
other  witness,  Henry  Wriothesley,  was  a  '  gentleman'  of  Kent." 

Rev.  F.  M.  Millard,  rector  of  Otham,  Kent,  writes  (Nov.  10,  1898)  :  "  I  have 
looked  through  our  registers  with  some  care  down  to  1700,  without  finding  any 
name  at  all  resembling  yours." 

Rev.  P.  F.  Wigan,  vicar  of  Thurnham,  Kent,  writes  (Dec.  18,  1898)  :  "  1  have 
searched  the  parish  registers  of  Thurnham  up  to  1651,  and  your  name  does  not 
appear  in  any  of  its  forms." 

Rev.  John  Scarth,  vicar  of  Bearsted,  Kent,  writes  (Jan.  -1,  1899)  :  "  The  regis- 
ters of  this  parish  do  not  disclose  any  entries  in  your  name  or  of  any  names 
like  it." 


Il8         MKMORIAI.S  OF  THE  OUISENBERRY  FAMILY 

Miss  Phillis  Castleman  Brown,  of  Leeds,  Kent,  writes  (April  20,  1899)  :  "  Mr. 
Southey,  rector  of  the  neighboring  parish  of  Hollingbourne,  says  he  has  looked 
all  through  the  registers,  and  could  not  find  your  name,  or  any  name  like  it, 
among  them." 

Mr.  Cornwallas  P.  Wykeham-Martin,  of  Leeds  Castle,  Kent,  writes  (Dec.  8, 
1898)  :  "I  have  looked  through  all  the  old  papers  we  have  here,  and  am  sorry 
to  say  I  cannot  find  any  mention  of  the  Quessonbury  family  nor  of  any  name 
like  it." 

Eev.  H.  M.  McDonald,  rector  of  St.  Nicholas,  Rochester,  Kent,  writes  (Dec. 
30,  1898)  :  "  Having  searched  our  registers  to  1672, 1  regret  to  inform  you  I  can 
find  no  entries  relating  to  your  ancestors." 

Rev.  A.  J.  W.  Thorndike,  vicar  of  St.  Margaret's,  Rochester,  Kent,  writes 
(June  10,  1899):  "  Our  registers  do  not  begin  until  1694,  and  I  have  made  a 
careful  search  from  that  date  to  1849,  but  your  name  does  not  occur,  nor  any 
name  like  it." 

Rev.  Percy  G.  Benson,  vicar  of  Hoo,  Kent,  writes  (Jan.  27, 1899) :  "  No  such 
name  as  yours,  nor  any  name  like  it,  is  to  be  found  in  the  registers  of  this  parish, 
which  only  go  back  to  1640." 

Mr.  H.  S.  Kerdal,  parish  clerk  of  the  old  parish  church  at  Greenwich,  Kent, 
writes  (Feb.  8,  1899)  :  "  Our  registers  go  back  to  1615,  the  earlier  ones  having 
been  destroyed  by  fire.  There  is  no  record  whatever  of  your  name,  with  the 
exception  of  the  burial  of  James  Questenburie  on  Sept.  16,  1620." 

Rev.  E.  W.  Bartlett,  vicar  of  Queenborough,  Kent,  writes  (Dec.  12,  1898) : 
Our  registers  date  from  1719,  the  older  ones  having  been  lost  in  a  fire.    I  do 
not  think  that  Quisenberry  is  a  Kentish  name,  or  that  it  could  be  a  modifica- 
tion of  the  name  of  this  parish." 

Rev.  F.  R.  Alfree,  vicar  of  St.  Nicholas-at-Wade,  Isle  of  Thanet,  Kent,  writes 
(March  7,  1899):  "  The  registers  of  this  parish  do  not  date  further  back  than 
1653,  and  I  can  find  no  entry  in  the  name  of  Questenbury,  nor  any  name  approxi- 
mating it,  in  any  subsequent  year." 

Mr.  J.  J.  Strange,  parish  clerk  of  St.  Dunstan's,  West,  London,  writes  (March 
3,  1899)  :  "I  have  searched  the  registers  of  this  parish  from  1596,  but  the  name 
of  Questenbury  does  not  appear  in  any  of  them." 

Mr.  H.  Mapleton  Chapman,  probate  registrar,  Canterbury,  writes  (Nov.  26, 
1898):  "The  calendars  of  both  the  Archidiaconal  and  Consistorial  Courts  of 
Canterbury  have  been  searched,  but  there  is  no  record  of  any  will  in  the  name 
of  Quessonbury,  nor  of  any  will  that  could  presumably  be  of  the  same  family. 
The  Consistory  Court  dates  from  1 396,  and  the  Archdeaconry  from  1449.  Search 
was  made  from  these  dates  to  1857  in  both  cases." 

Mr.  George  H.  Yapp,  Beadle  of  the  Grocers'  Company,  London  (Jan. 
5,  1899),  sends  an  extract  from  the  company's  books  showing  that  "Praise 
Quessenborow,  sonne  of  Samuel  Quessenborow,  was  admitted  by  Patrimony 
and  sworn  the  3d  day  of  August,  1681 ;"  and  he  writes:  "As  Praise  Quessen- 
borow was  admitted  to  the  freedom  by  patrimony,  it  may  be  taken  for  granted 


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that  liis  father,  Samuel,  was  also  a  freemau.  The  company's  records  are  not 
indexed,  and  it  takes  a  long  time  to  trace  members  of  the  company."  (Note. — 
Nothing  like  a  complete  search  of  these  records  was  made,  though  it  was  prom- 
ised and  paid  for.  ^ 

Mr.  Cowper,  of  Canterbury,  searched  the  registers  of  the  Cathedral,  of  all  the 
churches  in  Canterbury,  of  the  Cathedral  at  Rochester,  of  the  chtirch  at  Deal, 
etc.,  as  well  as  the  city  records  of  Canterbury  from  1396. 


I20         MEMORIALS  OF  THE  QUISENBERRY  FAMIEY 


III. 

ENGLISH.— APPROXIMATE  NAMES. 

1280,  10  Kal.  January.  (From  Letters  of  Brother  John  Peckham,  Archbishop 
of  Canterbury,  Institutions  of  Vicars,  etc.).  "  Brother  John  Peckham, 
Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  at  Buxton,  Norwich  diocese,  instituted 
Nicolas  de  Kyssingbir'  Vicar  of  Tilmanstone  Church.  [Hasted's  his- 
tory of  Kent  says  that  Buxton  is  situated  in  the  parish  of  Barham, 
Kinghamford  Hundred,  Kent,  about  six  miles  from  Canterbury.  Also 
that  the  parish  and  church  of  Tilmanstone  lies  in  Eastry  Hundred, 
Kent,  about  eight  miles  from  Canterbury.  He  does  not  name  the 
Vicars  of  this  Church  prior  to  1500].  Vol.  XX,  Archseologia  Cantiana, 
page  104,  in  an  article  headed  'Forty-five  Vicars  of  Tilmanstone,' 
gives  as  the  second  on  the  list  '  N.  de  Kissingbir',  instituted  23 
December,  1280." 

1284,  8  ides  of  July.  (Peekham's  Letters).  At  Chevning  Nic.  de  Kyssingebyr' 
to  Sundresse  Vicarage  ;  presented  by  Thomas  de  Cruce,  rector.  (Has- 
ted says  that  the  parish  of  Sundresse,  as  it  is  called  in  Domesday 
Book,  (but  otherwise  called  Sundrish,  Sundridge,  etc.),  lies  in  Cods- 
heath  Hundred,  Kent,  adjoining  the  parish  of  Chevening.  He  does 
not  name  the  vicars  of  this  church  prior  to  1320.] 

1361,  July  20.  (Calendar  of  Wills,  Court  of  Hustings,  London).  Will  of  Rich- 
ard de  Kislingbury,  draper,  of  London  :  To  be  buried  at  the  Church 
of  St.  Mary  le  Bow,  near  the  tomb  of  his  wife,  Mary.  Bequests  to  the 
churches  of  St.  Thomas  de  Aeon  and  St.  Paul,  the  rector  of  Holy  Trin- 
ity the  Less,  the  work  of  London  bridge,  holy  orders,  etc.  He  also 
wills  that  the  whole  of  the  wool  he  bought  at  Berkyng,  viz :  19  Sar- 
pelar,  be  distributed  among  the  poor,  viz  :  To  each  poor  person  one 
fleece.  To  Alice  his  wife  a  moiety  of  all  his  moveable  goods  by  way  of 
dower,  and  the  residue  of  the  term  of  services  of  his  apprentices. 
Makes  provision  for  chantries  in  the  churches  of  St.  Thomas  and  St. 
Mary  aforesaid  out  of  rents  of  tenements  in  the  parishes  of  St.  Mary, 
Holy  Trinity  the  Less  and  St.  Botolph  without  Aldgate.  Also,  to  his 
wife  Alice  his  leasehold  interest  in  the  manor  of  Berwyk  and  Cardenz, 
County  Essex,  for  life,  etc. 

[Richard  de  Kislingbury,  draper,  was  Mayor  of  London  in  the  year 
1350.] 

1.567,  Nov.  18.  (Canterbury  City  Records).  "  Md.  yt  John  Swynsbery  off  ye 
cittie  off  Canterbury,  Hackneyma',  was  admitted  and  sworn  to  ye 
Lib'ties  of  ye  cittie  of  Canterbury  ye  xviij*''  of  Now'br  anno  X'^' 
Elizabeth  Regine,  for  ye  which  he  paid  xxs." 


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IX  GERMANY.  EXGLAXD   AXD   AMERICA.  121 

1569,  Marshall's  Visitation  of  Xottingham  mentions  Cecil  de  Qaenesonrgh  in  a 
pedigree  of  the  Bellers  family. 

1576.  'Eegisrers  of  St.  Paul's  Cathedral,  Canterbury  .  John  >vrin;turie  and 
•Joan  Hall.  Wydo,  were  married. 

16i'''.,  Xov.  16.     Prerogative  Conrt  of  Canterbmy.  4  Fines.  Alstracts  of  Wilu  . 
Anne   KisUngbiirie.    of  Emondton,  in   Connty   M:'  V-tS-x.  v.M 
Bequests  to  sons  Eiohard.  John.  Edward,  and  P-::.-  K;-".ir.i'b  ;ry. 
Her  brother.  Pev.  An'lre-.v  Feme,  and  John  Cornish  -r,  V  -  ^■;,t: v.sors. 
Witnesses:  Wm.  Dibble,  M::,i-^.ret  Moun^lowe. 

1653.  Sept.  30.  Trerog.  Ct.  Can:,:  Ay^r.  A';ct.  of  Wi:u  .  Wni.  ^-hitten- 
bery,  of  the  parish  of  E^i_^,-r  L:::'  n  .-  :  i  eq"e~:5  to  ^laughter 
Elizabeth,  wife  Elizabeth,  anfi  br_:Lrr,  Th:^.  Whittenbnry.  Witnesses  : 
Moses  Beymon.  John  Floyd. 

1665.   0:t  11.      Prerog.   Cr.   Cant.:    1^0  Hyle  .    John  E:z;i::-b  ^rry,   r.f  St. 

Clements.  Danes,  Lcnaon.  Nnncnpative  .  Beqn-rs:5  to  br^-ihers 
Ei;nard  and  Edward,  wife  Ann,  an  1  dAV.ghter  Ann.  Witnesses: 
Eich  d  Beverly,  John  Cohins. 

1670,  Jnne  29.  Will  of  G-ilbert  Welden,  vicar  of  Eagingtcn.  in  the  Cotmty  of 
Warwick,  clerk.  Inventory  signed  by  X/.:h_,n:r-  Gilbert  and  John 
Quinborough. 

1695.  Jtine  3.  CGonsistory  Cottrt  of  Eoebester\  Letters  of  administration 
gran-ed    Mary    Q;:-':  -,vi  :i John    i;)nin":  : :       ,    late  of 

1732.  July  S.  Registers  of  Kirk  Elba.  Yorkshire;.  John  Beest  and  Margrit 
Qtieensbeary  married. 

1738.  Jane  i.  (Eegisters  of  St.  James.  Clerkenwell.  London,.  Deborah 
Qtteenbury  was  buried  in  Wood's  Close. 

1712,  Oct,  31.     'Same).    John  Q-t-^nl  :  ■;_b,  ::  '  in  lA  --.-fi:  ^:reet. 

17i6.  April  13,      Eegisters  of         G-  r_-  -  L_..y-..  M..yn^:r.  Li^nion  .  Mr. 

James  Sinclair  and  Mrs  An  -  iingborongh  were  married,  Qy: 

is  this  a  misprint  of  Q/iemi     . .  /  \.o\  ?) 

1S21.  Jtily  21.  ^Eegisters  of  St.  George's.  Hanover  Square,  London  .  Samuel 
Taylor  Queneborough,  bachelor,  and  Catherine  Liny ard.  srinster.  of  St. 
Andrews,  in  the  Borough  of  Plymouth,  were  married. 

1S33.  April  11,  ^Same  .  Haifiet  Queensberry  and  E,  Qtieensbrrry  are  named 
as  witnesses  to  a  marriage. 


122  MEMORIALS  OF  THE  QUISENBERRY  FAMILY 


THE  LONDON  HANSA. 

(Encyclopaedia  Britannica):  The  foreign  merchant  had  no  share  in  the  law 
of  the  land  where  he  sojourned ;  he  brought  with  him  his  own  law,  and 
administered  it  as  best  he  could.  .  .  .  The  state  of  trade  frequently  required 
a  long  stay,  and  sometimes  a  depositing  of  goods  among  strangers.  This  led  in 
time  to  the  acquisition  of  common  possessions  abroad,  lodgings,  storehouses, 
etc.  This  common  depot  or  "  factory"  became  the  central  point  of  the  Union 
or  Hansa  formed  by  the  merchants.  .  .  .  The  most  important  German 
mercantile  settlements  were  founded  in  Wisby,  London,  Novgorod  and  Bruges. 

In  the  German  colony  in  London  the  majority  of  the  members  were 
merely  passing  traders,  who  remained  citizens  of  their  native  towns. 
In  the  reign  of  Edgar  (959-975,  A.  D.;,  we  find  "the  people  of  the  Emperor" 
occupying  a  prominent  position  in  London  trade,  and  joined  in  a  lasting  league. 
The  members  of  this  league  came  mostly  from  Cologne,  the  first  German  town 
which  gained  great  importance,  both  at  home  and  abroad.  Its  citizens  possessed 
at  an  early  date  a  guildhall  of  their  own  in  London,  and  all  Germans  who 
wished  to  trade  with  England  had  to  join  their  guild.  ...  In  1260  a 
charter  of  Henry  III  assured  protection  to  all  German  merchants.  A  few  years 
later  Hamburg  and  Lubeck  were  allowed  to  form  their  own  guilds.  The  Hansa 
of  Cologne,  which  had  long  been  the  only  guild,  now  sinks  to  the  position  of  a 
branch  Hansa.  .  .  .  Over  all  the  branch  Hansas  arose  the  "Hansa 
Alamanniee,"  first  mentioned  in  1282.  ...  In  Elizabeth's  reign  the 
Hanse  merchants  in  London  lost  the  privileges  which  they  had  held  since  the 
time  of  Henry  III,  1216,  A.  D.) 

(Northouck's  History  of  London):  Proclamation  was  made  in  London,  A.  D. 
1220,  strictly  enjoining  all  foreigners  whatsoever,  merchants  excepted,  to 
depart  the  kingdom  by  Michaelmas  following.  At  the  same  time  the  citizens 
of  Cologne,  who  were  merchants  and  members  of  the  Hanseatic  league  in 
London,  paid  the  King  30  marks  to  have  the  seizin  or  possession  of  their  guild- 
hall in  the  city,  which  stood  where  now  the  Stillyard  is,  in  Thames  street. 
.  .  .  In  1259,  Henry  III,  at  the  desire  of  the  King  of  the  Romans,  confirmed 
the  privileges  of  the  German  or  Hanseatic  merchants. 

(Pennant's  History  of  London):  The  Steel- Yard  was  a  most  noted  quay  for  the 
landing  of  all  kinds  of  goods  imported  by  the  Easterlings  or  Germans.  Here 
they  had  their  guildhall.  They  were  our  masters  in  the  art  of  commerce,  and 
settled  here  before  even  the  eleventh  century.  For  we  find  them  here  in  the 
time  of  King  Ethelred,  in  the  year  979,  at  least;  for  the  Emperor's  men — that 
is,  the  Germans  of  the  Steel-Yard,  coming  with  their  ships — were  accounted 


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worthy  of  good  laws.  They  were  not  to  forestall  the  market  from  the  burghers 
of  London  ;  and  to  pay  toll  at  Christmas  two  grey  cloths  and  one  brown  one, 
with  ten  pounds  of  pepper,  five  pair  of  gloves  and  two  vessels  of  vinegar  :  and 
as  many  at  Easter.  The  name  of  this  wharf  is  not  taken  from  steel,  the  metal, 
which  was  only  a  single  article  of  their  trade,  but  from  stael-hoff,  contracted 
from  siapel-Jiojf,  or  the  general  house  of  trade  of  the  German  nation.  The 
powerful  league  of  the  Hanse  towns  and  the  great  profits  we  made  of  their 
trade  (for  they  were  for  a  long  season  the  great  importers  of  this  Kingdom)  pro- 
cured for  them  great  privileges.  They  had  an  alderman  of  London  for  their 
judge  in  case  of  disputes  :  and  they  were  to  be  free  of  all  subsidies  to  the 
King  or  his  heirs,  saving  their  ancient  prizes.  In  return  for  these  distin- 
guished favours  they  were  to  keep  in  repair  the  gate  called  Bishop  gate.  .  .  . 
As  they  decreased  in  strength  and  we  grew  more  powerful  and  more  politic,  we 
began  to  abridge  their  privileges.  We  found  that  this  potent  company,  by 
their  weight,  interfered  with  the  interest  of  the  natives,  and  dampened  their 
spirit  of  trade.  After  several  revocations  and  renewals  of  the  charter,  the 
Hanse,  in  1597,  was  shut  up  by  our  wise  and  patriotic  Queen,  and  the  German 
inhabitants  expelled  the  Kingdom. 

(Vol.  3,  Publications  of  the  London  and  Middlesex  Archaeological  Society. 
Article  by  John  Edward  Price,  page  66).  The  site  of  the  old  steelyard  (which 
building  was  destroyed  in  the  great  fire,  1666)  was  on  the  South  side  of  Thames 
street,  between  Dowgate  dock  and  All  Hallows  Church.  .  .  .  During  a  long 
period  the  place  was  both  the  center  of  London's  trade  and  the  scene  of  a 
complete  monopoly  of  British  commerce  by  the  merchants  of  the  Hanseatic 
League.  It  consisted  of  various  traders  from  a  number  of  continental  towns, 
who  carried  on  a  large  business  in  exporting  their  manufactures  to  London  in 
exchange  for  hides,  wool,  tin,  lead,  and  other  products  of  British  industry. 
.  .  .  The  customs  of  this  society  of  merchants  w^ere  somewhat  curious.  The 
members  were  never  allowed  to  sleep  away  from  the  steelyard,  or  to  keep  a 
housekeeper  :  and  if  any  individual  was  discovered  to  have  married  an  English- 
woman, he  was  forthwith  excommunicated,  and  lost  his  house.  As  in  modern 
companies,  a  board  of  directors  transacted  the  general  business,  and  amongst 
them  a  kind  of  freemisonry  existed,  obliging  them  not  to  divulge  any  of  their 
commercial  transactions  with  the  citizens.  This  assembly  comprised  repre- 
sentatives from  the  continental  towns,  who  met  every  week  on  Wednesday 
evening.  .  .  .  (The  steelyard  consisted  of  the  dwellings  and  warehouses  of 
the  Hansa  merchants,  and  also  of  their  guild-hall,  called  by  the  Londoners 
"  the  Dutch  Guildhall."  The  site  of  the  steelyard  remained  in  the  ownership 
of  the  Hanseatic  League  until  1857,  when  they  sold  it).  .  .  .  Elizabeth  ordered 
the  Hanse  traders  to  leave  her  dominions  by  the  25th  of  January,  1598-9,  .  .  . 
In  spite  of  this,  many  remained  behind  :  and,  merging  into  general  trade, 
endeavoured  to  retain  as  many  of  their  ancient  privileges  as  the  change  of  time 
would  permit. 

(Larned's  History  for  Eeady  Keference,  etc.).  The  merchants  of  the  Hanse 
towns,  or  Hansard's,  as  thej'  were  commonly  termed,  were  established  in  Lon- 


124         MEMORIALS  OF  THE  QUISENBERRY  FAMILY 


don'at  a  very  early  period,  and  their  factory  here  was  of  considerable  magni- 
tude and  importance.  They  enjoyed  various  privileges  and  immunities  ;  they 
were  permitted  to  govern  themselves^by  their  own  laws  and  regulations,  and 
the  duties  on  various  sorts  of  imported  commodities  were  considerably  reduced 
in  their  favour..  These  privileges  necessarily  excited  the  ill-will  and  animosity 
of  the  English  merchants.  ...  In  1474  the  King  assigned  to  them  in 
absolute  property  a  large  space  of  ground,  with  the  buildings  upon  it,  in 
Thames  street,  denominated  the  Steel-Yard,  whence  the  Hanse  merchants  have 
commonly  been  denominated  the  Association  of  the  Steel-Yard.  .  .  .  The 
different  individuals  belonging  to  the  factory  in  London  lived  together  at  a 
common  table,  and  were  enjoined  to  observe  the  strictest  celibacy. 


(Encyclopasdia  Britannica).  Steelyard^  Merchants  of  the — were  Hanse  mer- 
chants who  settled  in  London  in  1250,  at  the  Steelyard,  on  the  river  side,  near 
Cosin  Lane,  now  Iron  Wharf  Bridge.  Henry  III,  in  1259,  at  the  request  of  his 
brother  Richard,  Earl  of  Cornwall,  conferred  on  them  important  privileges, 
which  were  renewed  and  confirmed  by  Edward  I.  It  was  chiefly  through  their 
enterprise  that  the  early  trade  of  London  was  developed ;  and  they  continued 
to  flourish  till,  on  the  complaint  of  the  Merchant  Adventurers  in  the  reign  of 
Edward  YI,  they  were  deprived  of  their  privileges.  Though  Hamburg  and 
Lubeck  sent  embassadors  to  intercede  for  them,  they  were  not  re-instated  in 
their  monopolies,  but  they  succeeded  in  maintaining  a  foothold  in  London  till 
expelled  by  Elizabeth  in  1597.  Their  beautiful  guild-hall  in  Thames  street, 
described  by  Stow,  was  made  a  naval  storehouse. 


(Webster's  Dictionary).  Bterling.—Yxova.  Easterling,  once  the  popular  name 
of  German  traders  in  England,  whose  money  was  of  the  purest  quality.  "  In 
the  time  of  King  Richard  I  (1189-1199)  monie  coined  in  the  east  parts  of  Ger- 
manie  began  to  be  of  especiall  request  in  England  for  the  puritie  thereof,  and 
was  called  Easterling  monie,  as  all  the  inhabitants  of  those  parts  were  called 
'  Easterlings ; '  and,  shortly  after,  some  of  that  countrie,  skillful  in  mint 
matters  and  allaics,  were  sent  for  into  this  realme  to  bring  the  coins  to  perfec- 
tion, which  since  that  time  was  called  of  them  sterling  for  Easterling.''''  — 
[Camden. 


IN  GERMANY,  ENGLAND  AND  AMERICA.  125 


POSTSCRIPT. 


Mr.  Arthur  Quisenberry,  of  Lincoln,  Illinois,  writes  (Sept. 
3,  1900): 

"  There  is  an  error  in  your  former  book  that  I  wish  to 
correct.  On  page  45  you  say  '  There  is  scarcely  a  doubt  but 
the  Quisenberrys  of  Logan  county,  Illinois,  are  descended 
from  Moses  Ouisenberry.'  There  were  none  of  my  father's 
ancestors  who  ever  moved  to  Kentucky.  My  grandfather  Q. 
died  in  Virginia  before  the  beginning  of  this  century,  when 
my  father  was  a  small  boy  ;  and  while  I  cannot  say  positively, 
I  believe  my  branch  of  the  family  are  descendants  of  the 
first  Aaron  Ouisenberry.  My  uncles,  John  and  George,  both 
died  young  in  Virginia.  My  uncle  James  moved  to  Kentucky 
with  my  father  and  settled  in  Christian  county,  and  died 
there.  Some  of  his  sons  remained  in  Christian  county,  Ky., 
but  others  moved  to  Missouri,  settling  near  Independence, 
and  have  descendants  there  now." 

[Note. — The  editor  is  still  of  the  opinion  that  the  Quisen- 
berrys of  Illinois  are  descended  from  Moses  Quisenberry,  the 
son  of  the  first  Aaron  ;  but  from  Mr.  Arthur  Ouisenberry's 
letter,  it  seems  that  his  grandfather  died  in  Virginia  ;  so  the 
Moses  Ouisenberry  who  settled  in  Kentucky  must  have  been 
a  son  of  the  first  Moses.  It  is  very  probable  indeed,  however, 
that  Moses  Quisenberry,  son  of  the  elder  iVaron  Quisenberry, 
bought  lands  in  Kentucky  and  did  not  settle  upon  them  but 
remained  in  Virginia.] 


For  lists  of  Quisenberrys,  etc.,  who  served  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary War,  the  War  of  181 2,  the  Mexican  War,  and  on 
the  Confederate  side  during  the  war  between  the  States,  see 
^^Genealogical  Memoranda  of  the  Quisenberry  Family qX.q, 


INDEX. 


These  sought  their  register  among  those  who  laere  reckoned  by  Genealogy.''— 
Nehemiah. 


[Note, — This  index  is  divided  into  two  parts.  Part  I  comprises  the  name 
Quisenberry,  in  its  various  forms,  and  is  subdivided  into  four  sections,  namely: 
Section  1,— German  Forms  of  the  Name.  Section  2. — Eug^lish  Forms  of  the 
Name.  Section  3. — Approximate  English  Names.  Section  4. — American  Forms 
of  the  Name.    Part  II  comprises  all  other  names  mentioned  in  the  book.] 


Section  1. — Geeiv 

Questeuberch. 

Bartolt,  85,  90. 
Bertold,  81,  86,  87,  88,  89. 
Bertram,  82. 
Elvsabeth,  83. 
Hynrich,  80. 
Johann,  82. 
Konrad,  79. 
Tilman,  79,  81. 

Qiiestenberclis. 

Christine,  90. 
Questeiiberg-. 

A-driane,  90. 
Anna,  103. 

Barthold,  83,  90,  103. 
Berthel,  80. 
Bertholdt,  32,  80,  103. 
Bertold.  7,  28,  29,  30,  31,  79,  80,  81. 

82,  102,  103.  104. 
Bertouldus,  78. 
Bertolt.  79.  80,  81.  82. 
Bertram.  79,  104. 
Bertrand,  28.  104.  106. 
Caspar.  32,  90,  93,  95.  103. 
Catherine,  7.  29,  102,  103. 
Christian,  29,  81. 
Christina,  29,  102,  103. 
Christine,  90. 
Cord,  82. 
Cunegundis,  90. 

Cuniberte  (Saint ),  33,  101,  102,  103. 
Elizabeth  Catherina.  103. 
Elizabeth  Constantia,   33,  99,  100, 

102,  103. 
Entgenn,  93,  94,  103. 
Everhard,  90,  103. 


.N  FOKMS  OF  THE  NaME. 


Questenberg". 

Ferdinand  Constantine,  28,  32,  33, 

99,  102,  103. 
Franz,  103. 
i      Gerhardt,  90,  93,  103. 
Goddert,  29,  102. 
Gotfridus,  82. 
Heinrich,  29,  35. 
Henricus,  7,  29,  34,  35,  102. 
Henry,  29. 

Hermann,  32.  93,  96,  99.  100,  102. 
103. 

Hermann  Wenceslaus,  103. 
Johann.  29,  31.  32,  82,  89,  90,  93, 
103. 

Johann  A.,  33,  103,  105. 
Johes,  23,  105. 
Kurt.  29,  82. 

Margareta,  89.  90.  100.  103. 

Margareth,  7,  28,  104. 

Margherita.  29,  102. 

Maria,  103. 

Maria  Antonio,  103. 

Maria  Carolina,  103, 

Maria,  Catherina,  103, 

Maria  Constantia,  103. 

Norbert  Hermann,  102. 

Polixena,  103. 
!  Eobertus,  103. 
'      Sybilla.  7,  28,  104. 

Theresia,  103. 

Tidem,  28,  78. 

Tielmann,  7,  28,  31,  32.  34,  78,  79, 
80,  104. 

j  Questeuberge. 

1     Hermann,  78. 


128         MEMORIALvS  OF  THE  QUISENBERRY  FAMILY 


Qiiestenberg-li. 

Bartolt,  92. 
Bertold,  81. 
Bertolt,  80. 
Cathriua,  92,  93,  94. 
Eberhardt,  91.  92. 
Gerhardt,  92,  93,  94. 
Hermann,  96,  97. 


Section  2. — English 

Queshenbury. 

Marck,  38,  107. 

Quessenberi. 

Henrici,  107. 
Johannes,  39,  41,  107. 

Quesseuberry. 

Christopher,  39,  107. 
Elizabeth,  50. 
Henry,  107. 
James,  108. 

John,  39,  46,  107,  108,  117. 
Mildred,  45,  50. 
Millicent,  38,  107. 
Richard,  107. 

Quessenbery. 

James,  108. 
Mildred,  108. 

Quessenborow. 

Praise,  51,  116,  118. 
Samuel,  51,  116,  118,  119. 

Quessenbourow. 

Mary,  51,  116. 
Praise,  51,  115. 
Praise  God,  51. 

Quessenburrie. 

Ann,  38,  108. 

Qviessenbiiry. 

Alice,  50,  116. 
Elizabeth,  116. 
Mildred,  45. 

Quessonbiiry. 

George,  39,  107. 
Henry,  107. 

Jacobus,  39,  45,  107,  117. 
James,  7,  107,  117. 
John,  39,  107,  117. 
Mildred,  107,  117. 
Milicent,  107. 
Richard,  139. 

Questenberg'. 

Augustine,  35. 
Bertrand,  104,  106. 
Questeiiberry. 
James,  117. 


Questenberg-s. 

Margaretha,  94-99. 

Questeiiborch. 

Johann,  31,  82-88. 
Stingen,  82-88. 
Questeiiburg'. 

Bertholt,  88-89. 
!      Margretha,  88-89. 


Forms  of  the  Name. 

Questenbery. 

Christopherus,  117. 
H.,  109. 

Hary,  39,  108,  117. 

Henry,  7,  37,  38,  39,  40,  41,  43,  45, 

51,  110. 
John,  40,  41. 
Mildred,  7.  39. 
Millicent,  39. 
Thomas,  49. 

Questenberye. 
Henry,  117. 

Q  lies  tenboro  w. 

Marks,  37,  107. 
Qnesteiiburgh. 

Thomas.  115. 
Questeiiburie. 

Henry,  41,  42,  108. 
James,  109,  118. 
John,  41,  108. 
Questenbury. 
Amye,  36,  107. 
Anne,  37,  41. 
George,  117. 

Henry,  7,  37,  41,  43,  44,  45,  107, 

109,  110,  111,  113. 
James,  45,  46,  47,  108,  113,  114,  115. 
Jane,  41. 

Joan,  7,  46,  48,  109,  115. 

John,  7,  36,  41,  43,  46,  47,  48,  51, 

106,  109,  110,  113,  114,  115. 
Marcus,  37,  38. 
Mary,  44,  45,  111. 
Mildred,  46,  47,  109,  116. 
Sara,  44,  111,  112. 
Sarah,  48,  11 6. 

Thomas,  7,  46,  47,  48,  49,  50,  51, 
108,  109,  110,  113,  115. 

Questenburye. 

Ann,  109. 
John,  46,  108. 

Questoiibury. 

Anne,  109. 
James,  109. 
Joane,  109. 
Mary,  113. 
Sara,  113. 


IN  GERMANY,  ENGLAND  AND  AMERICA. 


Qviestuiibury. 

Thomas,  116. 

Questynbery- 

Augustine,  7,  36.  106. 
Henry,  36,  107. 
Thomas,  36,  107. 

Questynborow. 

Augustine,  36,  106. 

Questynbury. 

Augustine,  20,  36,  106. 
Questyugbery. 
Augustine,  36,  106. 

Qiiesty  118  borough. 

Augustine,  36,  106. 

Questyiigbury. 

Augustine,  35,  36,  106. 


I  Quill seiiburrow. 

I     Mary,  116. 
I      Samuel,  116. 

i  Quissinborow. 

I      Rev.  Thomas,  45,  51,  116. 

Quissiubiirrowe. 

Mary,  51,  116. 
Samuel,  51,  116. 

j  Qwestenberry. 

Harry,  87. 

Qwesteiibery. 

Harry,  37,  107. 

Marks,  37,  107. 
Vestonbery. 

Henry,  40,  117. 

Milisant,  40,  117. 


Section 


Appkoximate  English  Names. 


Kislingburie. 

Anne,  121. 

Edward,  121. 

John,  121. 

Perne,  121. 

Kichard,  121. 
Kislingbury. 

Alice,  120. 

Mary,  120. 

Richard,  120. 
Kizlingberry. 

Anne,  121. 

Edward,  121. 

John,  121. 

Richard,  121. 
Kyssingbir'. 

Nic.  de,  26,  120. 
Kyssingbyr'. 

Nicolas  de,  26,  120. 
Queenborough. 

John,  121. 
Queenbury. 

Deborah,  121. 
Queensbeary. 

Margrit,  121. 


Queensberry. 

E.,  121. 

Harriet,  121. 
Queneborough. 

Catherine,  121. 

Samuel  T.,  121. 

Quenesburg. 

Cecil  de,  121. 
Quenlingborough . 

Anne,  121. 
Quinborough. 

John,  121. 
Quinborow. 

John,  121. 

Mary,  121. 
Swinsburie. 

John,  121. 

Joan,  121. 
Swinsbery. 

John,  121. 
Whittenberv. 

Elizabeth,  121. 

Thomas,  121. 

William,  121. 


Section  4. — Amekican  Forms  of  the  Name. 


Chris  sen  berry. 
Rev.  Mr.,  71. 

Cliristenberry. 

David,  71. 

Creseii  berry. 

Annie,  71. 
Cruseiiberry. 

W.  A.,  71. 
Cushenberry,  25,  40,  71. 


Quesenberry. 

Abel,  73. 
Ann,  73. 
Catherine,  73. 
Charles,  73. 
David  H.,  73,  74. 

H.  M.,  72. 

I.  M.,  73. 
James,  73. 
Jos.  L.,  73. 


130         MEMORIALS  OF  THE  QUISENBERRY  FAMIEY 


Quesen  berry. 

Lucinda,  74. 
Nicholas,  73. 
Page,  73. 
Rose,  73. 
Samuel,  73. 
William  D.,  73. 
Zaccheus,  73. 
Quesen  bury. 
Albert,  54. 
Anderson,  54. 
Bessie  G.,  54. 
Betsey,  54. 
Catherine,  73. 
Elizabeth,  54. 
Frances,  54. 
Humphrey,  7,  54. 
James,  54,  73. 
John,  54. 
Mary,  55. 
Nicholas,  54. 
Richard,  54. 
Sallie,  54. 
Sanford,  54. 
Sue,  54. 

Thomas,  54,  55. 

William,  54. 

William  Minor,  54. 
Quessenbury. 

Anne,  7,  54. 

John,  7,  47,  53,  54. 
Questenbury. 

Francis,  47. 

John,  47. 

Thomas,  7,  47,  53. 
Quisenberry. 

Aaron,  7,  55,  5G,  58,  62,  71. 

Aaron  S.,  56. 

Achilles,  65. 

Ada  P.,  61. 

Adelaide  C,  69. 

Agnace,  58. 

Albert,  58,  62. 

Alice,  63. 

Allen,  57. 

Alma  L.,  61. 

Alzira  E.,  61. 

Anderson  0.,  8,  69. 

Angelina,  65. 

Ann,  59,  63,  64,  65. 

Ann  E.,  65,  67. 

Ann.S.,  68. 

Anna,  59. 

Anzie,  65. 

Antonia,  59. 

Armazinda,  65. 

Arthur,  57. 

Arthur  L.,  61. 

Arthur  T.,  68. 

Audley,  69. 


Quisenberry. 

Benjamin,  56. 
Bettie,  64,  65,  73. 
Braxton,  65. 
Buford  A.,  68. 
Caroline,  64. 
Carrie,  61. 
Catherine,  57. 
Charles,  59. 
Charles  C,  68. 
Charles  W.,  69. 
Chesterfield,  60. 
Chloe,  66. 
Claudius  V.,  68. 
Clay,  66. 
Colby,  66. 

Colby  Broomhall,  70. 

Colby  Burris,  7,  64,  65,  67,  68,  69,  72. 

Colby  M,  68. 

Colby  T.,  65. 

Cora,  69. 

Corinna  B.,  8,  69. 
Daniel,  62. 
David,  56,  62. 
David  Waller,  70. 
Dorothy  S.,  61. 
Dudley  T.,  68. 
Edgar,  59. 
Edward,  57. 
Edward  E.,  57. 
E.  S.,  57. 
Edward  S.,  56. 
Effie,  61. 
Elijah,  58. 
Eliza,  59,  62,  66. 
Eliza  M.,  68. 

Elizabeth,  56,  58,  62,  63,  64,  65. 
Elizabeth  Virginia,  58. 
Elkanah  E.,  68. 
Ella,  63,  64. 
Ellen,  58,  68. 
Elva,  58. 
Eraerine,  65. 
Emily,  66. 

Emily  Cameron,  8,  69. 

Emma,  58,  64,  70. 

Emma  Alice,  69. 

Ethel  Lisle,  70. 

Eugene,  69. 

Evaline,  56. 

Everett  B.,  61. 

Ezekiel  C,  68. 

Fielding  B.,  65,  68. 

Florence,  68. 

Florence  B..  68. 

Florence  Emily,  70. 

Frances,  58,  62,  63,  64,  65,  67. 

Frances  T.,  68. 

Frank  P.  63. 

Garland,  57. 

George,  55,  56,  62. 


IX  GERMANY,  ENGLAND  AND  AMERICA. 


Quisenberry. 

George  E. .  61. 
George  W.,  66. 
Gertrude,  69. 
Grace  E..  69. 
H.  C.  59. 
Harriet.  59. 
Harriet  E.,  61. 
Hattie  C.  61. 
Helen.  60. 
Henrietta,  56. 
Henrv.  64. 
Henry  J..  61. 
Hezekiah  E..  56. 
Hiram.  63. 
H.  L..  72. 
Hiter  N. ,  58. 
Ilia,  64. 
Inez,  58. 
luskip.  65. 
Ivanora.  69. 
J.,  59. 
J.  J..  57. 
■Jackson,  65,  66. 

Eev.  James.  7.32,  55,  60,  66.71,  73. 
James,  56,  57,  59,  60.  62.  63,  65,  67, 
71. 

James  Francis,  8,  69,  70. 
James  H.,  71. 
James  Harvey,  64:,  66,  71. 
James  M..  58.  59. 
James  N. .  61. 

Jane,  7.  58.  62.  63.  64,  65.  67. 

Janet,  64. 

Jennie  F. .  57. 

Jesse  L.,  61. 

Joan,  60. 

Joel,  63,  73. 

Joel  T.  63.  64. 

John,  55,  56,  57,  60,  62,  74. 

John  A.,  59. 

Dr.  John  A.  B.,  32,  59. 

John  B.,  61. 

John  H..  64.  71,  73. 

John  M.,  69. 

John  S.  58. 

Joseph,  62. 

Joseph  H..  66.  71. 

Joseph  M. ,  58. 

Joyce,  7,  55,  56,  62.  63. 

Joyce  D..  68. 

Julia.  58. 

Kate,  59. 

Kitty,  62,  66. 

Laura,  64. 

Laura  E.,  61. 

Lenious  W.,  61. 

Leta,  58. 

Letitia.  66. 

Letty,  66. 

Lissa,  62. 


Quis^iiljerrv. 

Lloyd  T..  65. 
Louis  C,  66.  71. 
Louisa,  67. 

Lucy.  56,  58.  59,  60,  62,  64,  67,  68. 
Lucy  A.,  61. 

Lucy  B.,  7,  67,  68,  69.  72. 

Lucv  T..  58. 

Mabel.  62. 

Madison.  68. 

Margaret,  65. 

Maria.  59. 

Martha  C.  65. 

Mary.  60.  61,  62.  64,  65. 

Mary  A..  62. 

Mary  Anderson,  70. 

Mary  E.,  62.  65. 

MarV  F..  65. 

MarV  J..  63.  65.  66. 

Mary  L..  64. 

Mattie,  58. 

Mattie  L..  69. 

Masine.  61. 

Menawether.  Q(K 

Millie.  62. 

Mills.  65. 

Milton.  65.  67. 

Minerva,  64. 

Mollie.  66. 

Monroe,  61. 

Moses.  55,  56,  71. 

Mourning,  61. 

Nancy.  62,  63. 

Nannie.  68. 

Narcissa,  65. 

Nellie  M..  61. 

Nelson.  58. 

Nettie,  68. 

Newton,  69. 

Nicholas,  6(t. 

Owen.  71. 

Pamelia.  63,  64. 

Patsey.  64.  66. 

Pattie.  59. 

Paul  J..  61. 

Pearl,  ds. 

Peggy,  62,  64. 

Philip.  64.  65. 

Polly.  56.  65,  67. 

Polly  Ann,  66. 

Prudence,  63. 

E.,  57. 

Kachel.  60,  64,  65. 
Kachel  J.,  68. 
Ealph.  58. 
Kebecca  J.,  68. 
Eeuben  T..  71. 
Ehoda.  66. 
Ehodes,  65. 
Eichard,  57.  5^. 
Eichard  D..  62. 


132         MEMORIALS  OK  THE 


Qiiisenlberry. 

Robert,  56,  64,  65. 
Robert  L.,  61. 
Robert  T.,  59. 
Roger,  63,  65,  66,  67. 
Roger  M.,  68. 
Roger  T. ,  68. 
Ruth,  69. 

Sallie,  56,  65,  66,  67,  68. 
Sallie  A.,  60,  65. 
Sallie  B.,  66. 
Sarah,  58,  62,  64. 
Sarah  E.,  69. 
Sarah  F.,  67. 
Shelton,  66. 
Sidna,  62. 
Sidney  A.,  68. 
Sophia,  66. 
Sophia  A.,  66. 
Stephen,  56,  65. 
Susan,  59,  60. 
Susannah,  M.,  60. 
T.,  57. 
T.  H.,  57. 
Talitha,  63. 
Tandy,  64.  65. 
Thacker,  64. 
Thomas,  56,  57. 
Thomas  E.,  62. 
Thomas  Edwin,  59. 
Thos.  Jefferson,  63,  64. 


QUISENBERRY  FAMILY 


Quisenberry. 

Virginia,  58,  63. 
Vivian,  62. 
W.,  57. 
Waller,  70. 
Walter  L.,  68. 
Wilbur,  59. 

William,  55,  56,  57,  58,  59,  62,  64,  65. 

William  B.,  60. 

William  F.,  65. 

William  H.,  64. 

William  M.,  61. 

William  P.,  64. 

William  S..  60. 

William  Y.;  58. 

Winnifred,  56,  64. 

Zib.,  66. 

Quisenbiiry. 

Francis,  47. 

Quislienberry. 

William,  71. 

Qusenberry. 

Emma,  72. 
Jane,  72. 
John  J.,  72. 
John  L.,  72. 
Mary  B.,  72. 
William  B.,  72. 
William  F.,  72. 


II. 

Other  Names. 


A'Beckett,  Thomas,  15. 

Acht,  Caspar,  101. 

Affelen,  Hermann,  94. 

Aich,  Christina,  103. 

Aldeu,  Elizabeth,  73  ;  John,  73  ;  Pris- 

cilla,  73. 
Alfree,  Rev.  F.  R.,  118. 
Alsop,  Maj.  Benjamin,  58. 
Andre,  Caspar,  92,  94. 
Andreas,  Caspar,  91  ;  Domenicus,  105. 
Androes,  John,  46,  109. 
Ashton,  59. 
Austine,  Henry,  109. 
Averdunck,  Caspar,  95  ;  Catherine, 

95  ;  Johann,  102. 
Barry,  Lucy,  67 ;  Maria  L. ,  67. 
Bartlett,  Rev.  E.  W.,  5,118;  Lottie 

N.,64,  73;  Nelson  N.,  73;  W.Fred, 

64,  73. 

Beatty,  Ormond,  59  ;  Pattie,  59. 
Beest,  John,  121;  Margrit,  121. 
Bell,  Patty,  59 ;  Polly,  56. 
Bennett,  Patsey,  64. 
Benson,  Rev.  Percy  G.,  118. 


Benton,  Cleo,  66. 

Berry,  Alice,  63  ;  Grant,  63  ;  Jas.   H. , 

54;  John,  115 
Beverly,  Richard,  121. 
Beymon,  Moses,  121. 
Blackburn,  Mrs.  Jennie,  54. 
Blanckenberg,  Walramus,  97. 
Blitherwyk,  Robert,  lOU. 
Blitterswich,  Brune,  98  ;  Heinr.,  80. 
Margherita,  102. 
Blitterwick,  Margaretha,  29, 
Blitterswicke,  Robberti,  79. 
Blyterswych,  Joh.,  79  ;  Ropretch,  79. 
Bodenhamer,  E.  L.,  69;    Mattie  L. 

69. 

Bolinxwerdt,  Melchior,  90. 
Bolte,  Johann,  102. 
Boone,  Daniel,  63. 
Bourland,  Mrs.  O.  M.,  54. 
Bowie,  Jane,  72;  John  C,  72;  Lucy 
A.,  72. 

Bowles,  Ann,  38,  108;    Edward,  38, 
108. 


IN  GERMANY,  ENGLAND  AND  AMERICA.  I33 


Brandies,  Catherine,  103  ;  Johann  J., 
103. 

Branthoff,  Jan.,  98. 
Brempt,  John,  89. 
Brent,  Antonia,  59. 
Brickenden,  116. 
Brock,  K.  A.,  75. 

Brockman,  16;   Asa,  56,  65;  Curtis, 

56 ;  Francis,  65 ;  Jacob,  65 ;  Lucy, 

56 ;    Mary,  65 ;    Nancy,  56 ;  Nar- 

cissa,  65  ;  Thomas,  65. 
Broelmans,  Gertrude,  101. 
Bronwej^ler,  Adolph,  91. 
Brookin,  PatseyE.,  67;  Roger,  68. 
Broomhall,  Adelaide,  69 ;  Corinna,  8, 

69 ;  Webb,  69. 
Brown,  Ann,  73;    Laurence  C,  5; 

Phillis  C,  5,  118. 
Bruner,  Frances,  63;  John,  63. 
Brunsheim,  Conradt,  92. 
Bunnemeyer,  Dr.  Bernard,  5. 
Burk,  Barbara,  75;    Catherine,  76; 

William,  76. 
Burris,  Catherine,  67  ;    Frances,  63  ; 

Jane,  7,  63,  67  ;  Sallie,  56  ;  Thomas, 

63  ;  William,  67. 
Burrus,  Kobert,  74  ;  Peter,  74. 
Buschman,  Wittiben,  95. 
Bush,  Ambrose,  63;   Ann,  65;  Ann 

S.,  68;   Catherine,  65;   Christy  G., 

64;    Elizabeth,  65;    Francis,  67; 

Jane,  63,  65;   John,  65;   Josiah,  75  ; 

Laura.  64  ;   Lucy,  7,  67  ;  Margaret, 

65;  MaryE.,  65;  Ossie,  65  ;  Peggy, 

64;    Rachel,  67;    Robert,  65,  68; 

Sallie,  65;    William  L.,  65;  Zach, 

65. 

Bybee,  Frances,  63;  Mary  J.,  66. 

Cade,  Jack,  13,  14. 

Calenius,  Arnoldus,  97. 

Calhoun,  John  C,  75. 

Cameron,  76  ;  Emily,  69. 

Camplin,  Edward,  60  ;  Mary,  60. 

Cancro,  Wilhelmo,  80. 

Capps,  Chas.  W.,  65. 

Carr,  Blackwell,  68  ;  Lucy  Belle,  68. 

Carter,  Mrs.  H.  C,  54  ;  Reginald,  115  ; 

Winnifred,  64. 
Catlett  (or  Cattlet),  Elizabeth,  114, 

115;  Thomas,  114,  115. 
Cave-Browne,  Rev.  J.,  39. 
Chandler,  William,  50,  116  ;  Mildred, 

50,  116. 

Chapman,  H.  Mapleton,  4,  118. 
Chenault,  Anderson,  69  ;     Ann,  75  ; 

Barbara,   75,  76 ;     Catherine,   76 ; 

Charles,  67  ;   Colby,  67  ;   David,  67  ; 

Elizabeth,     76;      Eliza    G.,  75; 

Eleanor,  75  ;   Emily  69  ;   Emily  C, 

8,  69  ;   Emily  S.,  76  ;  Evaline,  76  ; 

Felix  R.,  75  ;  Frances,  67 ;  Harvey, 


67  ;  Howlett,  75 ;  James,  67  5 
James  B.,  76 ;  John,  67,  75,  76; 
John  R.,  75  ;  Josef  a,  76  ;  Louise, 
75,  Louisia,  67;  Louisia  C,  76; 
Lucy  67;  Lucy  E.,76;  Maria  L., 
67;  Martha,  75;  Mary  E.,  75; 
Millard  F.,  67;  Milton  W.,  67; 
Nancy,  67;  Nancy  M.,  76;  Sallie 
A.,  67;  Stephen,  75,  76;  Tandy, 
63;  Thomas,  76;  Virginia,  63; 
William,  67,  75,  76;  William  M., 
76. 

I  Cheueau,  76. 

!  Chinault,  William,  74. 

!  Clandt,  Johann  Dietrich,  99. 

\  Clark,  Dr.  Hyde,  26. 

Clarke,  Thomas,  111 ;  William,  111. 
!  Clayton,  Caroline,  64;  Elizabeth, '  64  ; 
1      Sarah,  64;  Winnifred,  64. 

Clerke,  Henry,  110. 
i  Clippinks,  Marg.,  88. 
i  Cobham,  John,  110. 
I  Cochran,  Alzira  E.,  61;  Benj.  F.,  61  ; 
I      Lenny,  61. 

Codd,  John,  109. 

Coessen,  Fyegia,  79  ;  Gerhart  V.,  79. 
Coggeshall,  Hannah,  73. 
Colege,  Robert,  106. 
Collen,  Couplonde,  81. 
Collins,  Francis,  115  ;  John,  121. 
Conkwright,  Ann  E.,  65,  67  ;  Pleasant 
J.,  65,  67. 
I  Conrow,  Aaron,  74. 
Cook,  Laura  E.,  61. 
Cornish,  John,  121. 
Couchman,  16. 

Cowper,  J.  M.,  4,  106,  116,  117,  119. 
Cremer,  Duynwalt,  88  ;  Jacob,  88. 
Cress,  Carrie,  61. 

Crews,  Angelina,  65  ;  Zachariah,  65. 
Cromwell,  Oliver,  13,17,51;  Thomas, 
38. 

Cruce,  Thomas  de,  120. 

Daniel,  Jane,  62  ;  Jackson,  65. 

Davis,  Margaret,  57. 

Deloney,  T.,  121. 
{  Dickens,  Charles,  15. 
I  Dickinson,    Alfred,  59 ;      Ann,    59  ; 

Charles,  59  ;  Ralph,  59. 
I  Diedrichstein,  Constantia,    33,    103  ; 
Gundacker,  33,  103. 

Doan,  Mabel,  62. 

Dornek,  Johann,  79. 

Dortmunde,  Dederich,  85. 

Dubois,  Rachel,  77. 

Dudley,  Joyce,  7,  55  ;  Robert,  55. 

Duerson,  Mary  J.,  63  ;  Richard,  63. 

Dulaney,  Harriet,  59;   Dr.  Winfield, 
59. 

Duley,  Jane,  65. 
Dull,  Hannah,  77. 


134         MEMORIALS  OF  THE  OUISENBERRY  FAMILY 


Duucan,  Joyce,  63  ;  William,  63. 

Durham,  Harriet  E.,  61, 

Eadey,  Anue,  42,  109  ;   Maurice,  42, 

44,  109,  113. 
Eheren,  Alexander,  90,  103 :  Anne, 

90,108;  Bartbolt,  90;  Herman,  90; 

Peter,  90. 

Elkin,  Ann,  65  ;    Colby  W.,  68  ;    E.  J. 

M.,  68  ;  Enoch,  68  ;  Jane,  64 ;  Joyce 

A.,  68;   Lucv,  68;    Milton  S.,  68; 

Polly  A.,    66;     Kebecca    J..  68; 

Robert,  68;    Sarah  L.,  68 ;  Scott, 

66 ;  Willis,  64. 
Elliott,  Catherine,  67 ;  Hattie  C,  61  ; 

Philip,  67. 
Ellis,  Alice,  108  ;  Edraond,  108  ;  Ellis, 

110:  Henry,  110;  Jane,  111 :  Peter, 

43,  108,  111,  112;  Sallie,  56. 
Ellys,  Peter,  112. 
Eloye,  Edward,  115. 
Eubank,  16;    Cleo,  66;    Emily,  66; 

John,  66;    Polly,  65,  67;  William 

T.,  66. 

Evans,  Andrew,  48,   109 ;    Ann,  63 ; 

Geo.  W.,  66;  James,  66;  Jane,  64  ; 

Joseph  P.,  64;  Lee.  66  ;  Letitia,  66  ; 

Maroraret,   65,   109 ;     Nannie,   68  ; 

Pamelia,  63;   Peter,  65,  66:  Silas, 

63 ;  Talitha,  63. 
Ewing,  Randall  M.,  75. 
Eylsich,  Edmundus,  79. 
Faenpoit,  Frederick,  85. 
Falckenberg,  Johann,  95. 
Falconer.  John,  62;  Mary  A.,  62. 
Fant,  Julia,  58 ;  Virginia,  68. 
Farrand,  Matilda,  59. 
Finkle,   Abram,   77;     Adelaide,  69; 

Almira,  77  ;  Alvin  H.,  77  ;  Catherine, 

77;    Ebenezer,  77;   Frederick,  77; 

Frederick  G.,  77;  George,  77;  Geo. 

G.,  77;   Jno.  G..77;   Hannah,  77; 

Joseph  G.,  77;  Mary,  77;  Nancy,  77; 

Eachel,  77 ;  Theodore,  77  ;  Washing- 
ton, 77. 
Fitzhugh,  Emma,  72. 
Fletcher,  Elizabeth.  114;  John,  114; 

Thomas,  114. 
Floyd,  John,  121. 
Fludd,  Thomas,  144. 
Fogeler,  Nicasius,  89. 
Ford,  Dr.  Richard,  60;  Sallie  A.,  60. 
Fossa,  Peter,  92,  94. 
Fox,  George,  66 ;  Rhoda,  66. 
Frazier,  Catherine,  57;  Robert,  57. 
French,  Lucy,  60 ;  Dr.  Pinckney,  60. 
Furde,  Christina,  103 ;  Otto,  103. 
Furden,  Christine,  90;  Gertrude,  95 ; 

Otto,  90,  95. 
Furstenberch,  Conradt,  90;  Margaret, 

90. 

Galen,  Jolian,  90. 


Gamble,   Edward  C,  68:   John  W., 

68  ;  Sallie,  68  ;  Susan,  68. 
Gardner,  Frances,    58 ;    James,   58 ; 

Dr.  Jwmes  E.,  58;   Lucy  T.,  58; 

Mary.  58. 
Garrett,  57. 
Gayle,  Joyce,  55. 
Gentry,  Mary,  65 ;  Pleasant,  65. 
Geylenkirchen,  Conradt,  84. 
Gibbens,  Elizabeth,  50,  116;  Thomas, 

50,  116. 
Gibbs,  Elizabeth,  63. 
Gibson,  Elizabeth,  44;  Nicholas,  44. 
Gilbert,  Ann,  110;  Nathaniel,  121. 
Gleydell,  Reginald,  46,  109. 
Green,  Bessie,  54  ;  Rose,  73. 
Grevenstein,  Heinrich,  81. 
Griffin,  Joan,  46,  109;   John,  46,  48, 

109;  Wm.,  47. 
Grigsby,  James,  63;  Talitha,  63. 
Groom,  Ben.  B.,  63;  Elizabeth,  63. 
Grundy,  Felix,  75;  Nancy,  75. 
Grunston,  Hartobello,  49,  116. 
Guthrie,  Henry,  63;   Sallie  A.,  67: 

Sarah  L.,  68. 
Gwinn,  Mary  A.,  62. 
Haggard.  15  ;  Bartlett  S..  68  ;  Charles, 

65;    Clifton,    66;     Elizabeth,  63; 

Frances  T.,  68;  Enoch.  68 ;  James, 

66;    James  D.,    66;    Jeptha,  66; 

John,  66;  Lucy  A.,  68;  Mourning, 

66;  Nannie,  66;  Nettie,  68 ;  Sidney 

A.,  66. 
Hales,  Henry,  116. 

Hall,  James,  59;  Joane,  121;  Sallie, 
59. 

Hamond,  Thomas,  110. 

Hampden,  John,  13. 

Hampton,  Emerine,  65;    Mary,  65; 

Nancy,  65. 
Happenium,  Hermannus,  98. 
Hardenraths,  Wittiben,  95. 
Harff,  Barbara,  90. 
Harflete,  Walter,  43,  109. 
Harpen,  Engell,  78. 
Harris,  Louisa,  68. 
Hatfield,  C.  T.,  5. 
Haville,  Thomas  de,  18. 
Hawkins,  Elizabeth,  58. 
Heade,  Ri.,  44,  113,  117. 
Heimbach,  Bartholdt,   90 ;  Cathrina, 

90  ;  Cunegundis.  90,  103  ;  Margaret, 

90  ;  Peter,  90,  103. 
Helm,  May,  59. 
Helman,  Johan,  89. 
Henderson,  Alfred,  54;    James,  60: 

Joan,  60;  John,  56;  Sallie,  54,56. 
Herb,  Gerhart,  79. 
Hermanni,  Johan  M.,  99. 
Herndon,  Elizabeth,  62 ;  John,  62. 
Hickman.  116. 


IN  GERMANY,  ENGLAND  AND  AMERICA. 


Hinkle,  Emma  A.,  69  :  Emma  M..  69  ; 

James    M.,    69:    Joseph    A.,  69; 

Lewise.  69. 
Hiter,  Jane,  58. 

Hodgkin,  Armazinda,  65  :  James,  65  ; 

Margaret,  65  ;   Philip,  65  :  Samuel, 

65:  Tandy  Q.,  65. 
Hogue,  Alvesto  P.,  105. 
Holman,  Archer  P.,  58;    Ellen,  58: 

George.    58:   Dr.  George    P.,  58: 

Mary,  58  :  Yirgiuia,  58. 
Hopper,  Dorothy  S..61;  Edward  E., 

61  :  Nellie  L.,  61  ;  Wm.  K.,  61. 
Hornbeak,  Florence,  68. 
Hotlin,  George,  79. 
Howard,  Ann,  58. 

Hoymbach,  Cathringen,  84;  Peter,  84. 

Hudson,  Evaline,  76. 

Hultz,  Edgar  M.,  68:  Lucy,  68;  Ma- 
riana, 68:  Manlius  E,,  68. 

Hunt.  John  D.,  67. 

Huutum.  Antonius,  98. 

Hynes.  Barbara,  76:  W.  K.,  76. 

Iturbide,  Emperor  of  Mexico,  73. 

Jackson,  Andrew,  75. 

James,  F.  Y.,  5. 

Janes,  Ann.  110:  Josias,  110. 

Jeayes,  J.  H..  117. 

Jefferson,  Thomas,  74. 

Jenkins,  '  Colby  M.,  68:  Cvrus.  61; 
James  Q..  68:  Harriet  E..'61:  Les- 
lie T..  68:  Lucy  J.,  68:  Marie  L., 
68:  Rachel  B.,  ^68;  Eachel  J.,  68; 
Sallie  A.,  68:  Thomas,  68:  Yirgil 
T.,  68. 

Johnson,  Evaline,  56:  E.  Polk,  56: 
Jane,  41,  108  :  Eobert,  41,  108,  111. 

Johnsonne,  Jane,  113. 

Jones,  Frances,  58  :  Lucy,  59. 

Kannengeisen,  Anna,  103. 

Kannengeisers,  Gertrude,  95. 

Kaunitz-Kietburg,  Count,  34,  105: 
Maria  Antonio,  103. 

Kerdal,  H.  S..  118. 

Kett%vich,  Wilh.,  79. 

Keussen,  Dr.  Hermann,  104,  105. 

Kilmer,  Almira.  77:  Mary,  77. 

Kleindanck.  Melchior,  90. 

Kleppinak,  Margaretta,  103. 

Klip{)incks.  Eliz.,  88. 

Krieckel,  Joannes,  99. 

Krith,  Johann,  94. 

Kuffstein,  Maria  C,  103:  Priestgolt, 

103. 
Lackland,  74. 
Lain.  Hermann  ther,  94. 
Laiiip.  Cathrina  zur.  92. 
Lamar,  L.  Q.  C,  73. 
Lamberg,  Joanne  F.,  103  :  Maria,  103. 
L'lughliu.  Mary,  64. 
Leverson,  Kichard,  109. 


I  Linden,  Mettelen,  95. 
j  Lindsay,    Annie,  72 :    Nicholas,    72  • 
[      Yachel,  72. 
j  Linyard,  Catherine,  121. 
Lisle,  Emma,  70:  JamesD.,70:  Nancy 

London,  Peter,  107. 
Lown,  Catherine,  77. 
j  Lyskirchen.  Conradt,  101:  Elizabeth 

C.  99,  100,  102,  103:  Gertrude  T  , 
[      102:    Margaretta,    102;  Polixena, 

McCord,  Emma,  64:  Woodson.  64. 
McDonald.  Emma  M.,  69-    Eey  H 

M.,  4,  118:  J.  D..  69:  Lewise  H.," 

69. 

McGayock,  James,  75:  James  R.,  75, 
76:  Hugh,  75:  Louisa  C.  76- 
Louise,  75:  Randall,  75.  76:  Sallie 

D,  ,  75, 
Mailbord,  Johann.  79. 
Maplesden.  Robert.  109:  Peter,  109 
Marshall.  John,  55:   Humphrey.  55- 

!      Mary,  55.  '  1      .  . 

j  Marte,' Gobeliuus,  79. 

Martin.  John,  67:  Nancy,  67:  Rachel, 
I  67. 

j  Matthews.    Margaret,   111:  Robert, 

Maupin,  Gabriel,  75. 

Mayes,  Edward,  73. 

Mercer,  John,  116. 

Mey,  Laurentium.  98. 

Meyer.  Karl,  104. 

Meyputz,  Joannes.  99. 

Millard,  Rev.  F.  M.,  4,  117, 

Mitchell,  Pamelia,  64. 

Mommerschlogs.  Melchiors,  90. 

Montague,  Geo.  W.,  3:  Lucy.  59. 

Moore,  Anzie,  65:    Martha    C.  65- 

Samuel.  68:   Sarah,  69:    Sarah  F 

68;  W.  B.,  63. 
Morgan.  Daniel,  59. 
Morris,  Rev.  A.  P..  4,  117:  Mary,  4- 

Robert,  60:  Roger,  4:   Susan,  60 ' 

Winifred,  56. 
Morton,  Agnace,  58:  Elijah,  58:  Eliz- 
abeth, 58. 
Mullins,  Alice,  73:   Henry,  74-  Pris- 

cilla,  73:  Wm..  73. 
Murphy.  Mary.  61. 
Murray,  Francis  M.,  61:  Harriet  E 

61 :  Harry,  61. 
Mutiken,  Hein..  79. 
Nail,  James  B  ,  7G :    James  F.,  76: 

Lucy  E.,  76,  77. 
Natt,  Hester,  116  ;  Mary,  51,  116. 
Nelson.  Elizabeth,    56":    Lucy  58- 

Thomas,  56,  58.  ^  '  " 

Newman.  John,  62  :  Mary,  62;  Millie 

62:  Sidna,  62. 


136         MEMORIALS  OF  THE  QUISENBERRY  FAMILY 


Nichols,  Bettie,  64,  73 ;  Elizabeth, 
73  ;  Hannah,  73  ;  Joshua,  73  ;  Lot- 
tie, 64,  73  ;  Nelson,  64,  73  ;  Kachel, 
73 ;  Walter,  73. 

O'Bannon,  Helen,  60;  Samuel  E.,  60. 

Ogden,  Elizabeth,  76 ;  Jno.  W.,  76. 

Otten,  Polixena,  103. 

Otterton,  Duke,  45  ;  Joane,  45. 

Oxburgh,  William,  115. 

Pabodie,  Elizabeth,  73;  Judith,  73; 
Eachel,  73  ;  Wm.,  73. 

Paramore,  Thomas,  44,  112. 

Parrish,  Ella,  63 ;  H.  S. ,  63  ;  Mary  F. , 
65. 

Peal,  Effie,  65. 
Peck,  Nancy,  77. 
Peckham,  John,  26,  120. 
Pendleton,  Ann,  58  ;   Benj.,  58  ;  Eliz- 
abeth, 58  ;  John,  58  ;  Wm.,  58. 
Penn,  William,  58. 
Perne,  Andrew,  121. 
Perry,  Lissa,  62. 
Phillipse,  Mary,  4. 
Pingio,  Johann,  102. 
Pinkerton,  Eliza  M.,  68  ;   Samuel,  68. 
Pope,  Ann,  7,  54. 

Potts,  Dr.  John  S.,  60;  Sallie  Q.,  60. 

Poynter,  James  W.,  65 ;  Sallie,  65  ; 
Wiley  T.,  65. 

Prewitt,  Wm.  F.,  63. 

Price,  Anna,  59;  John  Edward,  59.  ! 

Proctor,  Dr.  D.  L.,  63;  Mary  J.,  63 

Pulver,  Catherine,  77. 

Putnam,  Herbert,  5. 

Quaile,  Frances,  54  ;  Walker,  54  ;  Wil- 
liam, 54. 

Quastenberg,  Chas.,  34;  Kob.,  34. 
Ragland,  Bird,  68;    Catherine,  62; 

Colby  Q.,  68;  Elkanah,  68  ;  Frances. 

64  ;   James  F. ,  64 ;   John  M. ,  64,  68  ; 

Louisa,  67  ;   Lucy  A.,  68  ;  Mary  M., 

68  ;    Milton,   68  ;    Nathaniel,   68 ; 

Nathaniel  M.,  64;  Patsey  E.,  67; 

Sallie,  67;   Sallie  B.,  66;  Samuel 

H.,  64;   Sarah  F.,  68;  Thos.  S., 

66;    Virginia,  68;    Wm.  H.,  67; 

Wm.  T. ,  68. 
Bahmans,  Caspar,  95  :  Elizabeth,  95 ; 

Gertrude,  95  ;  Margaret,  95. 
Reeves,  Sallie  E.,  65. 
Reyde,  Gerhard,  72. 
Eeynolds,  Henrietta,  56  ;    Jane,  62  ; 

Joyce,  56  ;   Peggy,  62  ;   Sarah,  62  ; 

Sarah  E.,  62  ;  Wm.,  56,  62. 
Ehoades,  Elizabeth,  62 ;  Mary,  62. 
Eigg,  Basil,  73  ;  Catherine,  73. 
Ringelberg,  Matthias,  92. 
Eink,  Johann,  80  ;  Sybilla,  80. 
Eodgers,  Eleanor,  75  ;  John,  75  ;  Mary 

E.,  75;  Nancy,  75;   Sallie  D.,  75. 
Eogers,  Thorold,  13. 


Eoidon,  Pauwell,  81, 
Eose,  Mary  E.,  62. 
Eoydon,  Eose,  44. 
Eu'tledge,  James,  67. 
Eyan,  Eachel,  65. 
Eye,  Walter,  5,  26. 
Sanders,  Elizabeth,  62  :  Frances,  62. 
Scaggs,  Susannah  M.,  60. 
Scarth,  Eev,  John,  4,  117. 
Schlasgiu,  Christina,  29,  102. 
Shannon,  Emily,  76. 
Shipp,  Chloe,  66. 
Shorers,  Elizabeth,  54. 
Shorey,  Henry,  46,  109. 
Simpson,  Questenbery,  113  ;  Thomas, 
113. 

Sinclair,  Ann,  121  ;  James,  121. 

Sittarde,  Caspar  A.,  91,  92. 

Skeat,  W.  W.,  5,  26,  ll6. 

Slechter,  Bertolt,  79. 

Slossgin,  Johann,  83. 

Smith,  Agnace  M.,    58 ;    Jane,  58  ; 

Thomas,  58. 
Snatt  (or  Snott),  Nicholas,  111. 
Southey,  Eev.  Mr.,  4. 
Speed,  Thomas,  71. 
Spiegall,  Hilger,  83. 
Spindle,  Frances,  58. 
Stadler,  Maria  C,  103. 
Staell,  Joannes,  98. 
Staples,  Martha,  75. 
Stevens,  James,  60 ;  Lucy,  60. 
Stewart,  Bettie,  64;  Charles,  64. 
Stoddard,  Joshua,  73  ;  Eachel,  73. 
Stonehouse,  Duke,  45  ;  Elizabeth,  44  ; 

George,  44,  45  ;   Joane,  45 ;  Mary, 

44,  45,  113  ;  Nicholas,  44,  45,  113 ; 

Eobert,  44  ;  Eose,  44  ;  Wm.,  44. 
Strange,  J.  J.,  118. 
Stubblefield,  116. 

Suchteln,    Sybilla,  7,   28,   80,  104; 

Taitzgyn,  80. 
Sudduth,  Eachel,  64. 
Suderman,  Cathrina,  90  ;  Everhardtz, 

90. 

Sutherland,  65;  Ealeigh,  65. 

Swann,  Mrs.,  59. 

Sweetinge,  John,  115. 

Sydeveran,  Johan,  85. 

Tandy,  Frances,  63 :  Henry,  57  ;  John, 

74;  Wm.,  74. 
Taylor,  Emma,  58  ;  James,  58. 
Temper,  John,  18. 
Terrill,  Kitty,  62. 

Thatcher,   Elizabeth,    114;  Thomas, 

46,  110,  114. 
Thirlaen,  Cathrina,  103. 
Thitz,  Matthis,  89,  90. 
Thomas,  Jordan,  64 ;  Lucy,  64. 
Thomson,  Albert,  63;  Elizabeth,  63 ; 

Harrison,  63;     Harrison    P.,  63; 

Joyce,  63. 


IX  GERMANY,  ENGLAND  AND  AMERICA. 


Thompson,  Elizabeth,  73  :  Maria,  59  : 

Minerva,  64:  Wm.,  64. 
Thorndike,  Eev.  A.  J.  W.,  118. 
Thornton,  Ellen.  68. 
Throm,  Peter,  190. 
Tilcien,  Henry,  39. 
Tillman,  Polly,  62. 
Timberlake,  Jane,  72. 
Tinder,     George,    62  :     Nancy,    62  : 

Eichard,  62  :  Sarah,  62. 
Tribble,  Sallie,  68. 
Trigg.  Ann,  75. 
Trussell,  16. 

Tucker,  M.  M.,  66:  Mollie,  66 ;  Nan- 
nie, 66  :  SVm.  F. ,  66. 

Turner,  Thomas,  44,  113. 

Tyler,  Wat,  113. 

Tyree.  Frances,  67. 

Umphres,  Grace  E.,  69:  E.  E.,  69. 

Underholz,  Maria,  103. 

Vackel,  Joannes,  98. 

Vaneleave,  Sophia,  66 :  Stephen,  66. 

Yanlandigham,  Ada  P..  61:  Harriet 
E.,  61 :  Herschel,  61 :'  John  D..  61. 

Yass,  Ann,  59:  Benjamin,  59. 

Yentyman,  Walt.,  107. 

Yerris,  Johan,  89,  90. 

Yiolett.  Lucy,  64. 

Wade,  John.  Ill:  Nicholas,  111. 

Walburg,  Maria  A.,  103. 

Walden,  Gilbert,  121. 

Walker.  Dr.  \\\  W.,  .54. 

Walton,  James,  59:  Jno.  F.,  59: 
Matilda,  59  ;  May,  59  ;  Sallie,  59  ; 
Susan,  59. 

Wanmete,  Herman,  81. 

Warder,  Lucinda,  74. 


Warlowe,  Wm..  36,  37,  106. 

YVarner,  Mary,  51,  116. 

Washington,  George,  4,  54:  John,  54. 
;  Watts,  David,  63  :  Talitha,  63. 

Weathers,  Mary,  65. 
I  Weaver,  Florence  B.  68:  T.  E.,  68. 
I  Wegks,  Gerhardt,  92. 

Welch.  Mildred,  46,  110:  Wm..  46, 
110. 

Weverstrass,  Johann  J.,  99. 
White,  Mary,  60;  Monroe,  66:  Sallie, 
66. 

Wickhovius.  Johannes,  98. 

Wigan,  Eev.  P.  F.,  4,  117. 
i  Will,  Joanne.s,  98. 

WiUiams,  J.  T.,  66:  EHza,  66. 

.Withers,  Aileen,  68  :  Electra  H.,  68- 
Ella  D..  68:  Joseph  H.,  68:  Jose- 
phine. 68  :  Joyce  D. ,  68  :  Kitty,  68  : 
Lucy,  68  :  Mariana,  68:  Eoger  W., 
68  ;  Sallie,  68  :  Susan.  68. 

Woodcroft,  Daw.  44;  Elizabeth,  44, 
45. 

Woodfin.  Eliza  G.,  75:  Moses,  75. 

Woodford,  Bettie,  65. 
^  Wright,   Benjamin,    62  :     Eliza,  62  : 
■     Jack,  62:   James,  59:    Lucy,  62: 
Sarah.  62  :  Susan,  59. 

Wriothesley.  Hen.,  44,  113,  117. 
:  Wvkeham-Martin.  Cornwallis   P.,  5, 

:  118. 

Wylereman,  Joens.  85. 

Yapp,  George  H.,  118. 

Yewell,  Harrison,  76:  Lucv  E.,  76; 
I      Sallie  L.,  76. 

Zegeler.  Niclais,  87. 
'  Zorn,  Garrett  S.,  56. 


MEMORIALS  OF  THE  QUISENBERRY  FAMILY 
IN  GERMANY,  ENGLAND  AND  AMERICA. 


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4.  Mary  Anderson  Quisenberry,  Winchester, 

Ky. 

5.  David  Waller  Quisenberry,  Winchester, 

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7.  E.  Polk  Johnson,  Louisville,  Ky. 

8.  Mrs.  Garrett  S.  Zorn,  Louisville,  Ky. 

9.  Colby  B.  Quisenberry,  Avon,  Ky. 

10.  Henry  L.  Quisenberry,  Hedges,  Ky. 

11.  R.  D.  Quisenberry.  Slater.  Mo. 

12.  Robt.  T.  Quisenberry,  Danville,  Ky. 

13.  Miss  Virginia  Quisenberry,  Danville,  Ky. 

14.  Sam'l  H.  Ragland,  New  York  City,  N.  Y. 

15.  Phil.  Quisenberry,  Santa  Fe,  Mo. 

16.  John  A.  Quisenberry,  Danville,  Ky. 

17.  Edward  Mayes,  Jackson,  Miss. 

18.  E.  B.  Quisenberry,  Sedalia,  Mo. 

19.  Mrs.  Sallie  Q.  Potts,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

20.  Jesse  L.  Quisenberry,  Chicago,  Ills. 

21.  Mrs.  O.  M.  Bourland,  Van  Buren,  Ark. 

22.  F.  R.  Carpenter,  Denver,  Col. 

23.  C.  V.  Quisenberry,  Lebanon,  Texas. 

24.  Roger  E.  Quisenberry,  Winchester,  Ky. 

25.  Joel  T.  Quisenberry,  Winchester,  Ky. 

26.  James  W.  Poynter,  Winchester,  Ky. 

27.  New  York  Public  Library,  New  York  City. 
28  Miss  Jennie  F.  Quisenberry,  Calhoon,  Ky. 

29.  Arthur  Quisenberry,  Lincoln,  Ills. 

30.  Thos.  E  Qiiisenberry,  Slater,  Mo. 

31.  Thos.  M.  Owen,  Birmingham,  Ala. 

32.  W.  M.  Quaile,  Ozark,  Ark. 

33.  W  M.  Quaile,  Ozark,  Ark. 

34.  Col  R.  T.  Durrett,  Louisville,  Ky. 

35.  Geo.  W.  Montague,  Hoi  yoke,  Mass. 


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[    37.  Mrs.  CorinnaB.  Quisenberry,  Washington, 

I  D.  C 

j  F8.  Adelaide  C.  Quisenberry,  Washington, 
!  D.  C. 

39  Jas.    Francis  Quisenberry,  Washington, 
D.  C. 

40.  Colby  B.  Quisenberry,  Washington,  D.  C. 

41.  Florence   E.    Quisenberry,  Washington, 

D.  C. 

42.  Mrs  Emma  May  McDonald,  McKenzie, 

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43.  Gen.  J.  C.  Breckinridge,  Washington,  D.  C. 

44.  J.  M.  Cowper,  Canterbury,  England. 

45.  A.  F.  Broomhall,  Troy,  Ohio. 

!    46.  Dr.  B.  Bunnemeyer,  Washington,  D.  C. 

47.  Virginia  Historical  Society,  Richmond,  Va. 

48.  Virginia  State  Library,  Richmond,  Va. 
I    49.  Lyon  G.  Tyler,  Williamsburg.  Va. 

50.  New  England  Historic-Genealogical  Soci- 
'  ety,  Boston,  Mass. 

51.  Library  of  Congress,  Washington,  D.  C. 

52.  Library  of  the  British  Museum,  London, 
I  England. 

j    53.  Herald's  College,  London,  England. 

54.  Rev.  A.  P.  Morris,  Leeds,  Kent,  England. 

55.  Miss  Phillis  C.  Brown,  Leeds,  Kent,  Eng- 

land. 

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57.  Kentucky  State  Library,  Lexington,  Ky. 

58.  Lexington  Library,  Lexington,  Ky. 

59.  Polytechnic  Society  of  Ky.,  Louisville 

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61.  Koenigl-Archiv,  Dusseldorf,  Germany. 

62.  Joel  Munsell's  Sons,  Albany,  N.  Y 

63.  A.  C.  Quisenberry,  Washington,  D.  C. 
61.  J.  M.  Quisenberry,  Ewington,  Ky. 

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THE  LIFE  AND  TIMES  OF 


Hon.  HUMPHREY  MARSHALL 


SOMETIME  an  officer  of  the  Revolutionary  Army;  Member  for  the  District  of 
Kentucky  of  the  Virginia  Convention  (1788)  which  adopted  the  Federal  Consti- 
tution; Member  from  Fayette  County,  Ky.,  of  one  or  more  of  the  conventions  at 
Danville  looking  to  the  erection  of  Kentucky  into  a  separate  State;  several  times  a 
member  of  the  Kentucky  Legislature;  Senator  in  Congress  from  17QS  to  1801  ;  author 
of  an  History  of  Kentucky,  etc.,  etc.,  etc. 

By  ANDERSON  C.  aUISENBERRY. 

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remain  unsold.    For  copies  address, 

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Washington,  D.  C. 

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1896  YEAR  BOOK 

OF  THE 

 KENTUCKY  SOCIETY  

SONS  OF  THE  AMERICAN  REVOLUTION, 

Compiled  and  Edited  Mainly  by 
ANDERSON  C.  QUISENBERRY. 

Bound  in  blue  and  white  cloth  (the  Society's  colors)  and  also  in  paper  covers. 


Published  1896  by  John  P.  Morton  &  Co.,  Louisville,  Ky. ;  Robt.  Clarke  &  Co., 
Cincinnati,  Ohio;  A.  C.  McClurg  &  Co.,  Chicago,  111.;  J.  L.  Boland,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Price,  cloth,  $2.50;  paper,  $2.00.  A  large  edition  was  published,  and  copies  may 
still  be  had  by  addressing  either  of  the  above  publishers. 

The  work  contains  a  list  of  the  officers,  non-commissioned  officers  and  privates  to 
whom  were  granted  land  warrants  by  the  State  of  Virginia  for  services  in  the 
Revolutionary  War.  Also  a  list  of  the  officers,  non-commissioned  officers  and 
sailors  of  the  Virginia  navy  during  the  Revolutionary  War.  Also,  a  list  of  the 
officers,  non-commissioned  officers  and  privates  who  served  in  "the  Illinois 
Campaign,"  1779-80,  under  Gen.  George  Rogers  Clark.  Also  a  roll  of  the  citizens  of 
Kentucky  who  drew  pensions  for  services  in  the  Revolutionary  War — comprising 
altogether  more  than  six  thousand  names. 


"  /  think  every  mati  would  like  to  come  of  afi  ancie?it  and  honourable 
race.  .  .  .  As  you  like  your  father  to  be  an  honourable  7nan,  why  not  your 
grandfather,  and  his  ancestors  before  him  /"'—Colonel  Newcome. 


GENEALOGICAL  MEMORANDA 

— OF  THE — 

QUISENBERRY  FAMILY, 
AND  OTHER  FAMILIES, 

INCLUDING   THH    NAMES    OF    CHLNAULT,  CAMERON, 
MULLINS.  BURRIS,  TANDY,  BUSH,  BROOMHALL, 
FINKLE,  RIGG,  AND  OTHERS. 


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to  A.  C.  Quisenberry,  Inspector  General's  Office,  Washington, 
D.  C.  Messrs.  Joel  Munsell's  Sons,  Albany,  N.  Y.,  also  have 
some  copies  to  sell. 


The  Following"  is  the  Distribution  of  the  Wotk  : 


LIBRARIES  : 


British  Museum,  Londou,  England. 
Congressional  Library,  Washington,  D.  C.  (2) 
Daughters  American  Revolution,  Wash.  D.  C. 
Kentucky  State  Library,  Frankfort,  Ky. 
Lexington  Library,  Lexington,  Ky. 
Maidstone  Library,  Maidstone,  England. 
New  England  Historic-Genealogical  Society, 
Boston,  Mass. 


Minnesota  Historical  Society,  St.Paul,  Minn. 
New  York  Library  (Astor),  New  York,  N.  Y. 
New  York  State  Library,  Albany,  N.  Y. 
Pennsylvania  State  Library,  Harrisburg,  Pa. 
Virginia  Historical  Society,  Richmond,  Va. 
Virginia  State  Library,  Richmond,  Va. 
Wisconsin  State  Historical  Society,  Madison, 
Wis. 


Mrs.  Maria  L.  Barry,  Gallatin,  Tenn. 
Mrs.  Lucy  Barry,  Gallatin,  Tenn. 
Judge  W.  M.  Beckuer,  Winchester,  Ky. 
Hon.  John  Bennett,  Richmond,  Ky. 
Henry  L.  Broomall,  Media,  Pa. 
Addison  F.  Broomhall,  Troy,  Ohio. 
Frank  S.  Broomhall,  Wilmington,  Ohio. 
Thos.  W_  Broomhall,  Spencer  Station,  Ohio. 
Mrs.  Edith  B.  Busch,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Capt.  W.  N.  Bush,  Allen,  Texas. 
Prof.  Jos.  J.  Casey,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Hon.  A.  T.  Chenault,  Richmond,  Ky.  (2). 

E.  N.  Chenault,  Fourche  Dam,  Ark. 
Judge  John  C.  Chenault,  Richmond,  Ky. 
John  S.  Chenault,  White  Hall,  Ky. 
Millard  F.  Chenault,  Gallatin,  Tenn. 
Milton  W. Chenault,  Castalian  Springs,  Tenn. 
Overton  H.  Chenault,  Lexington,  Ky. 

Mrs.  Sallie  G.  H.  Chenault,  Richmond,  Ky. 
Stephen  Chenault,  Orange,  Texas. 
Judge  Wm.  Chenault,  Richmond,  Ky. 
W.  B.  Clark  &  Co.,  Boston,  Mass. 
Mrs.  Anna  R.  des  Cognets,  Lexington,  Ky. 
J.  M.  Cowper,  Canterbury,  England. 
Lionel  Cresswell,  Leeds,  England. 
Col.  R.  T.  Darrett,  Louisville,  Ky. 
Mrs.  Polly  A.  Elkin,  Elkin,  Ky. 
II.  R.  Finkle,  Bath,  Ontario,  Canada. 
Surg.  Jas.  E.  Gardner,  U.  S.  N.,  Cambridge, 
Mass. 

Miss  Lucretia  Gildersieeve, Kingston, Canada. 
Dr.  A.  G.  Grinnan,  Madison  Mills,  Va. 
Mrs.  Julia  J.  Gurley,  Dallas,  Texas. 
Mrs.  Caroline  E.  Havens,  Detroit,  Mich. 
Mrs.  Alice  Hinkle,  McKenzie,  Tenn. 
James  Marvin  Hinkle,  Waco,  Texas. 

F.  Bush  Hodgkin,  Winchester,  Ky. 
Miss  Corinna  Hunt,  Wilmijigton,  Ohio. 
Hon.  E.  Polk  Johnson,  Louisville,  Ky. 
Geo.  E.  Littlefield,  Boston,  Mass. 
Mrs.  Maria  C.  N.  Lyle,  Lexington,  Ky. 
Mrs.  Emma  McCord,  Winchester,  Ky. 
Mrs.  G.  B.  McFarland,  Jefferson  City,  Mo. 
Hon.  Edward  Mayes,  Jackson,  Miss. 


Mitchell  &  Hughes,  London,  England. 
Geo.  W.  Montague,  Holyoke,  Mass. 
Rev.  A.  P.  Morris,  Leeds,  Kent,  England. 
Joel  Munsell's  Sons,  Albany,  N.  Y.  (16). 
Mrs.  Mattie  C.  Nash,  New  Rochelle,  N.  Y. 
Mrs.  Ellen  P.  O'Brien,  Beaumont,  Texas. 
Thos.  M.  Owen,  Birmingham,  Ala. 
Mrs.  Sallie  Q.  Potts,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
I.  M.  Quesenberry,  Danville,  Ky. 
Jos.  L.  Quesenberry,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Mrs.  Bessie  G.  Quesenbury,  Van  Buren 
Ark. 

Adelaide  C.  Quisenberry,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Anderson  C.  Quisenberry,  Wash.,  D.  C.  (2). 

Arthur  Quisenberry,  Lincoln,  111. 

Arthur  T.  Quisenberry,  Springfield,  Mo. 

Colby  B.  Quisenberry,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Mrs.  Corinna  B.  Quisenberry,  Wash.,  D.  C. 

E.  B.  Quisenberry,  Sedalia,  Mo. 

Mrs.  Emily  C.  Quisenberry,  Winchester,  Ky. 

Florence  Emily  Quisenberry,  Wash.,  D.  C. 

George  H.  Quisenberry,  Atlanta,  HI. 

Jas.  Francis  Quisenberry,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Jesse  L.  Quisenberry,  Chicago,  III. 

John  A.  Quisenberry,  Danville,  Ky. 

Philip  Quisenberry,  Santa  Fe,  Mo. 

R.  D.  Quisenberry,  Slater,  Mo. 

Robt.  T.  Quisenberry,  Danville,  Ky. 

R.  M.  Quisenberry,  McKinney,  Texas. 

T.  E.  Quisenberry,  Slater,  Mo.  . 

Miss  Virginia  Quisenberry,  Danville,  Ky. 

Waller  Quisenberry,  Winchester,  Ky. 

Wm.  P.  Quisenberry,  Mexico,  Mo. 

Saml.  H.  Ragland,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

Dr.  C.  R.  Shinault,  Helena,  Ark. 

Wm.  Shinault,  Coinjock,  N.  C. 

Mrs.  L.  Sinclair,  Walkerton,  Canada. 

Mrs.  Bertha  T.  Snider,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 

Hon.  Thos.  Speed,  Louisville,  Ky. 

Mrs.  Emma  L.  Taylor,  Lankford,  Md. 

Prof.  Lyon  G.  Tyler,  Williamsburg,  Va. 

Dr.  W.  W.  Walker,  Schulenburg,  Texas. 

Mrs.  Joyce  D.  Withers,  Mexico,  Mo. 

Miss  Sallie  L.  Yewell,  Owensboro',  Ky. 


By  States,  Etc.— Alabama,  1;  Arkansas,  3;  California,  1;  Canada,  3;  District  of  Columbia 
10;  England,  6;  Illinois,  3;  Kentucky,  26;  Maryland,!;  Massachusetts,  5 ;  Michigan,  1  •  Min- 
nesota, 1 ;  Mississippi,  1 ;  Missouri,  10 ;  New  York,  22 ;  North  Carolina,  1 ;  Ohio,  4 ;  Pennsylvania 
2;  Tennessee,  5;  Texas,  6  ;  Virginia,  4;  Wisconsin,!.   Total,  117.  ' 


Date  of  request 

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